Abstracts tagged "Diagnosis and systemic lupus erythematosus"

Abstract Number: 2276 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Signature of Circulating Micro-RNA in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Anting L. Carlsen¹, Aaron J. Schetter², Christoffer T. Nielsen³, Christian Lood⁴, Steen Knudsen⁵, Anne Voss⁶, Curtis C. Harris⁷, Thomas Hellmark⁸, Mårten Segelmark⁹, Søren Jacobsen¹⁰, Anders A. Bengtsson⁴ and Niels H. H. Heegaard¹¹, ¹Clinical Biochemistry, Immunology & Genetics, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Immunology & Genetics, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen S, Denmark, ⁴Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Rheumatology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ⁵Medical Prognosis Institute, Horsholm, Denmark, ⁶Dept of Rheumatology, Odense University Hospital, Odense C, Denmark, ⁷Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁸Nephrology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ⁹Nephrology, Linkobing University, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹¹Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Immunology & Genetics, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation sustained by a type I interferon response. The diagnostic value of…