Abstracts tagged "Autoantibodies and post-translational modification"

Abstract Number: 910 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Anti-Carbamylated Protein Antibodies (Anti-CarP) Precede The Onset Of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jing Shi¹, Lotte A. van de Stadt², E.W.Nivine Levarht¹, Tom W. J. Huizinga¹, Dörte Hamann³, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg⁴, René E.M. Toes¹ and Leendert A. Trouw¹, ¹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Jan van Breemen Research Institute | Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Sanquin Diagnostic Services, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Rheumatology, Jan van Breemen Research Institute | Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) and IgM-Rheumatoid Factor (IgM-RF) are auto-antibodies that can be detected many years before the clinical diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)…