Abstracts tagged "complimentary and diagnosis"

Abstract Number: 361 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Citrullinated 14-3-3η Antibodies Are Specific for Early and Established RA and Are Complementary to ACPA
Anthony Marotta¹, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg², Gilles Boire³, Désirée van der Heijde⁴, Robert Landewé⁵, Maarten Boers⁶, C.F. Allaart⁷, Mairead Murphy⁸, Samina Turk⁹, Vivian P. Bykerk¹⁰, Edward Keystone¹¹, Katherine A. Siminovitch¹¹ and Walter P. Maksymowych¹², ¹1423 Dempsey Road, Augurex Life Sciences Corp., North Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Dr Jan van Breemenstraat 2, Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology Division, CHUS - Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁴Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Deapartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jan van Breemen Research Institute/Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁷Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁸Augurex Life Sciences Corp., North Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁹Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁰Divison of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹¹Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose Citrullination is a post-translational modification whereby arginine (Arg) is deiminated by PAD enzymes to form citrulline (Cit). In RA, current ACPA assays measure the…