Abstracts tagged "Auto-immunity and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 1107 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Expression Quantitative Trait Loci -eQTL- Analysis in Systemic Sclerosis
Martin Kerick¹, David Gonzalez Serna¹, Maria Teruel², Sepideh Babaei³, Marialbert Acosta-Herrera¹, Elena Carnero-Montoro², Zuzanna Makowska³, Anne Buttgereit⁴, Guillermo Barturen², Sikander Hayat⁴, Jorge Kageyama⁴, Manuel Martínez-Bueno², PRECISESADS Clinical Consortium⁵, Ralf Lesche³, Marta Alarcón-Riquelme² and Javier Martin¹, ¹Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine López-Neyra, IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain, ²Medical Genomics, Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ³Pharmaceuticals Division, Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Spain
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a complex systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. Genetics and environmental factors contribute both…