Abstracts tagged "Bioinformatics"

Abstract Number: 1428 • ACR Convergence 2022
Molecular and Clinical Profiling of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Predicts the Response to Rituximab
Daniel Toro-Domínguez¹, José Linares-Blanco¹, Raúl López-Domínguez², Pilar S. López-Garrido², Georgina Galicia-Rosas¹, Pedro Carmona-Sáez² and Marta Alarcon-Riquelme¹, ¹Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ²University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most prevalent rheumatic diseases, mainly characterized by chronically painful, swollen joints that can severely impair physical function…
Abstract Number: 0536 • ACR Convergence 2022
Change in Urinary Biomarkers at Three Months Predicts 1-year Treatment Response of Lupus Nephritis Better Than Proteinuria
Andrea Fava¹, Laurence S Magder², Daniel W. Goldman³, Jill Buyon⁴, Betty Diamond⁵, Joel Guthridge⁶, William Apruzzese⁷, Derek Fine¹, Jose Monroy-Trujillo¹, Mohamed G. Atta¹, Peter Izmirly⁴, H Michael Belmont⁸, Anne Davidson⁵, Maria Dall'Era⁹, Deepak Rao⁷, Arnon Arazi¹⁰, Nir Hacohen¹¹, Soumya Raychaudhuri⁷, the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) RA/SLE¹² and Michelle Petri³, ¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Maryland, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ⁴NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ⁶Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁸NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, ¹⁰Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Melrose, MA, ¹¹Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, ¹²Multiple Insitutions
Background/Purpose: A decline of urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) to < 0.5 is associated with better long-term preservation of kidney function in lupus nephritis (LN). UPCR…
Abstract Number: 1118 • ACR Convergence 2022
Monocyte Transcriptomic Analysis Uncovers Heterogeneous Gene Expression Profiles in Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) with and Without Subclinical Atherosclerosis
Laurel Woodridge¹, Elvira Chocano Navarro², George Robinson¹, Paul Ashford¹, Kirsty Waddington³, Anisur Rahman⁴, Christine Orengo⁵, Ines Pineda-Torra⁶ and Elizabeth Jury¹, ¹University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²VIHR, Barcelona, Spain, ³University College London (alumni), London, United Kingdom, ⁴Centre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵ISMB / UCL, London, United Kingdom, ⁶Cabimer, Sevilla, Spain
Background/Purpose: A leading cause of mortality in SLE is cardiovascular disease (CVD) through accelerated atherosclerosis: the build-up of cells and lipids in the vascular wall.…
Abstract Number: 1473 • ACR Convergence 2022
Unsupervised Clustering of Lupus Patient-Reported Outcome Data Identifies Patient Groups with Differences in SLEDAI and Physician Global Assessment
Jack Zent¹, Kristy Bell², Brooke Williams², Prathyusha Bachali³ and Peter Lipsky⁴, ¹AMPEL BioSolutions LLC, Leesburg, VA, ²AMPEL BioSolutions LLC, Charlottesville, VA, ³AMPEL BioSolutions, Redmond, WA, ⁴AMPEL BioSolutions, Charlottesville, VA
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with heterogeneous clinical presentations. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) can aid in the measurement of the burden of…
Abstract Number: 0554 • ACR Convergence 2022
Loss of Synovial Tissue Macrophage Homeostasis Precedes Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Onset
Megan Hanlon¹, Mary Canavan², conor Smith³, Achilleas Floudas⁴, Nuno Neto⁵, Qingxuan Song⁶, Phil Gallagher⁷, Ronan Mullan⁸, Conor Hurson⁹, Barry Moran⁵, Michael Monaghan⁵, Sunil Nagpal¹⁰, Douglas Veale¹¹ and Ursula Fearon⁵, ¹Molecular Rheumatology, Dublin, Ireland, ²Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, ³bTrinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Molecular Rheumatology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Dublin, Ireland, ⁵Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁶Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁷St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁸Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁹St Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ¹⁰Janssen Research, Collegeville, PA, ¹¹St. Vincent's University Hospital, Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Synovial-tissue macrophages significantly contribute to Rheumatoid Arthritis, yet the precise nature/function of macrophage subsets within the inflamed joint remains unexplored. Here we explore the…
Abstract Number: 1119 • ACR Convergence 2022
Investigating Macrophage Heterogeneity in the Esophagus and Lungs of SSc Patients
Hadijat Makinde¹, Carla Cuda¹, Miranda Gurra¹, Mary Carns², Kathleen Aren², Gaurav Gadhvi¹, Salina Dominguez¹, Jane Dematte³, Darren Brenner⁴, John Pandolfino⁵, G. R. Scott Budinger⁴, Deborah Winter⁶ and Harris Perlman¹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ³Northwestern University, Elmhurst, IL, ⁴Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁵Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Wilmette, IL, ⁶Northwestern University, Skokie, IL
Background/Purpose: Our group has made important contributions to an emerging understanding of monocytes and macrophages as central to SSc pathogenesis. There are numerous studies that…
Abstract Number: 1607 • ACR Convergence 2022
Machine Learning Identifies Biomarker of Non-Response to Methotrexate in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Vincent Bouget¹, Julien Duquesne¹, Paul-Henry Cournède², Bruno Fautrel³, Francis Guillemin⁴, Pascal de Jong⁵, Judith Heutz⁶, Marloes Verstappen⁷, Annette van der Helm-van Mil⁸, Xavier Mariette⁹ and Samuel Bitoun¹⁰, ¹Scienta Lab, Paris, France, ²Paris-Saclay University - CentraleSupelec, Paris, France, ³Sorbonne University Paris, France and Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France, Paris, France, ⁴Université de Lorraine, APEMAC, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France, ⁵ErasmusMC, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Netherlands, ⁶Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁷Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁸Leiden University Medical Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁹Paris-Saclay University, Rueil Malmaison, Ile-de-France, France, ¹⁰Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) is the first line treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Unfortunately, 30% to 40% of RA patients do not respond to MTX with…
Abstract Number: 0564 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identifying Shared Genetic Architecture Between RA and Other Conditions: A Phenome-Wide Association Study
Harrison Zhang¹, Gregory McDermott², Thany Seyok², Sicong Huang², Kumar Dahal², Sehi L'Yi¹, Clara Lea-Bonzel¹, Jacklyn Stratton², Dana Weisenfeld², Tianrun Cai², Paul Monach³, Jing Cui², Chuan Hong⁴, Tianxi Cai⁵ and Katherine Liao², ¹Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, ⁴Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁵Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: RA shares individual risk alleles with other autoimmune conditions such as type 1 diabetes and celiac disease. However, there are limited studies examining the…
Abstract Number: 1120 • ACR Convergence 2022
Transcriptome-Wide Association Study of Sjögren’s Disease Risk Alleles Identifies Novel Genes with Altered Expression in Minor Salivary Gland and Other Tissues
Marcin Radziszewski¹, Mandi Wiley¹, Bhuwan Khatri¹, Kandice Tessneer¹, Astrid Rasmussen¹, Professor Simon Bowman², Lida Radfar³, Roald Omdal⁴, Marie Wahren-Herlenius⁵, Blake Warner⁶, Torsten Witte⁷, Roland Jonsson⁸, Maureen Rischmueller⁹, Patrick Gaffney¹, Judith James¹, Lars Ronnblom¹⁰, R. Hal Scofield³, Xavier Mariette¹¹, Marta Alarcon-Riquelme¹², Fai Ng¹³, Gunnel Nordmark¹⁰, Umesh Deshmukh¹, A. Darise Farris¹ and Christopher Lessard¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ³University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Stavanger University, Stavanger, Norway, ⁵Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁶National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁷MH-Hannover, Hannover, Germany, ⁸University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, ⁹RheumatologySA, Adelaide, Australia, ¹⁰Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ¹¹Paris-Saclay University, Rueil Malmaison, Ile-de-France, France, ¹²Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ¹³Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's disease (SjD) is an autoimmune disease characterized by reduced function of exocrine glands, but also has systemic manifestations affecting multiple organs, including abnormal…
Abstract Number: 1625 • ACR Convergence 2022
Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Identifies Pathogenic Drivers of Sjogren’s Disease in Humans
Blake Warner¹, Thomas Pranzatelli², Paola Perez², Daniel Martin², Shyh-Ing Jang², Kalie Dominick², Eiko Yamada², Kevin Byrd³, Quinn Easter⁴, A. Darise Farris⁵, Christopher Lessard⁵, Amanda Oliver⁶, Raquel Bartolome-Casado⁶, Zohreh Khavandgar¹, Sarthak Gupta⁷, Sarah Teichmann⁶, Alan Baer⁸ and John Chiorini², ¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, ³American Dental Association, Scientific Research Institute, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁴American Dental Association, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁶Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, ⁷National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ⁸Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Sjogren's Disease(SjD) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by exocrine dysfunction. The pathogenesis is incompletely understood, but involves gene-environment interactions leading to infiltration of…
Abstract Number: 0565 • ACR Convergence 2022
Deciphering Complement System-dependent Cellular Pathways in Human Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Tissues Using Single-cell Computational Omics
Juan Vargas¹, Nirmal Banda², Ian Mantel³, Anna Jonsson⁴, Kevin Wei⁵, Deepak Rao⁴, Susan Goodman⁶, Kevin D Deane⁷, Jennifer Seifert⁸, Jennifer Anolik⁹, Michael Brenner¹⁰, Soumya Raychaudhuri⁴, Accelerating Medicines Partnership RA/SLE⁴, Michael Holers², Laura Donlin⁶ and Fan Zhang⁸, ¹School Public Health Biostatistics Department, Aurora, CO, ²Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Aurora, CO, ³Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁷University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, ⁸University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ⁹University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ¹⁰Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The complement system is a major component of innate immunity and plays a vital role in experimental models of autoimmune arthritis pathogenesis. In patients…
Abstract Number: 1125 • ACR Convergence 2022
Genomics of JAK-STAT Signaling in Venous Thromboembolism
Stine R Haysen, Ane Langkilde-Lauesen Nielsen, Per Qvist and Tue Kragstrup, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi) have been associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). This concern limits the use of JAKi-based therapy. Hence,…
Abstract Number: 1680 • ACR Convergence 2022
Module Signatures of Synovial Single-cell States Identify Disease Phenotypes in Early Treatment-naive Rheumatoid Arthritis
Felice Rivellese¹, Elena Pontarini², Cankut Cubuk¹, Alessandra Nerviani¹, Liliane Fossati-Jimack¹, Anna Surace¹, Elisabetta Sciacca³, Katriona Goldmann¹, Michele Bombardieri⁴, Myles Lewis¹ and Costantino Pitzalis¹, ¹Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, ²William Harvey Research Institute, London, United Kingdom, ³Queen Mary University of London, Biancavilla, Italy, ⁴Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Despite extensive studies, the relationship between circulating and local immune cells and clinico-pathological features of Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases remains unclear. Recently, synovium-specific cell states…
Abstract Number: 0633 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identification of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Endotypes by Analysis of Inflammatory and Immunologic Gene Expression Signatures
Erika Hubbard¹, Prathyusha Bachali², Kathryn Kingsmore Allison¹, Yisha He¹, Michelle Catalina³, Amrie Grammer⁴ and Peter Lipsky¹, ¹AMPEL BioSolutions, Charlottesville, VA, ²AMPEL BioSolutions, Redmond, WA, ³AMPEL BioSolutions, Harvard, MA, ⁴AMPEL LLC, Charlottesville, VA
Background/Purpose: One of the hallmarks of SLE is clinical and molecular heterogeneity. Recent work has leveraged next-generation sequencing techniques to identify molecular signatures characteristic of…
Abstract Number: 1136 • ACR Convergence 2022
Stratification of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Patients Based on the Molecular Patterns of Mouse Models
Maria Rivas Torrubia, Maria Morell, Marta Alarcon-Riquelme and Guillermo Barturen, Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune, chronic and multisystemic autoimmune disorder, which typically affects women and presents high severity and mortality. It is…

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