Abstracts tagged "cytokines and neonatal disorders"

Abstract Number: 889 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Modeling Environmental and Genetic Determinants to Identify the Association of Risk Genes in Anti-Ro60-Mediated Injury: Relaxin Receptor I and Tumor Necrosis Factor
Joanne H. Reed¹, Paula S. Ramos², Jiri Zavadil³, Jill P. Buyon⁴ and Robert M. Clancy¹, ¹Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³Pathology and Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformtics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Fetuses exposed to maternal anti-Ro60 antibodies can develop cardiac conduction abnormalities and life threatening cardiomyopathy; manifestations of neonatal lupus (NL). Recent data support an injury…