Abstracts tagged "Epigenetics"

Abstract Number: 0999 • ACR Convergence 2022
Differences in Chromatin Accessibility Pre- and Post-Induction Therapy in Pediatric Lupus
Joyce Hui-Yuen¹, Kaiyu Jiang², Susan Malkiel³, Betty Diamond³ and James Jarvis⁴, ¹North Shore LIJ Health System, Great Neck, NY, ²University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ³Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Research Center, Buffalo, NY
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may be triggered by gene-environment interactions. Data are scarce on how epigenetic variance contributes to disease risk in pediatric SLE…
Abstract Number: 1898 • ACR Convergence 2022
Radiographic Osteoarthritis Progression Can Be Predicted via Pyrosequencing Analysis of Baseline Peripheral Blood
Chris Dunn¹, Cassandra Velasco², Leoni Schlupp³, Emmaline Prinz³, Vladislav Izda⁴, Liubov Arbeeva⁵, Yvonne Golightly⁶, Amanda Nelson⁶ and Matlock Jeffries³, ¹University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Edmond, OK, ²University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, New York, NY, ⁵University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁶UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by a variety of clinical and molecular phenotypes. However, we do not yet have robust biomarkers…
Abstract Number: 1097 • ACR Convergence 2022
Intrinsic STAT1 Deficiency Underlies Proinflammatory Imprint of Naive CD4+ T Cells in Spondyloarthritis
Bilade CHERQAOUI¹, Frederic Cremazy¹, Marc Lauraine¹, Ghazal Shammas², Roula Said-Nahal³, Hendrick Mambu Mambueni⁴, Felicie Costantino², Marine Fourmont², Simon Glatigny², Luiza Maria Araujo² and Maxime Breban², ¹INSERM U1173, UFR Simone Veil, Versailles-Saint Quentin / Paris-Saclay University, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, ²1INSERM U1173, UFR Simone Veil, Versailles-Saint Quentin / Paris-Saclay University, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, ³Rheumatology Division - Ambroise Pare Hospital, APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, ⁴Genomic Platform of Faculty of Health Simone Veil - UVSQ university, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
Background/Purpose: Spondyloarthritis (SpA) development is associated with type 3 immune response activation. In HLA-B27/human β2-microglobulin transgenic rat model (B27-rat), this might at least be related…
Abstract Number: 1975 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identifying MicroRNAs Associated with Neuropathic Pain in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
Lissette Delgado-Cruzata¹, Milena Rodriguez Alvarez², Veronika Zenkeviciute³, Nickolas Almodovar³ and Toni-Ann Bravo³, ¹City University of New York, New York, NY, ²SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY, ³John Jay College, CUNY, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Neuropathic pain is one of the most common clinical characteristics of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It often does not subside with the use of DMARD,…
Abstract Number: 1116 • ACR Convergence 2022
Peripheral Blood DNA Methylation-based Machine Learning Models for Prediction of Knee Osteoarthritis Progression: Biospecimens and Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative and Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project
Chris Dunn¹, Cassandra Sturdy², Cassandra Velasco³, Leoni Schlupp², Emmaline Prinz², Vladislav Izda⁴, Liubov Arbeeva⁵, Yvonne Golightly⁶, Amanda Nelson⁷ and Matlock Jeffries², ¹University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Edmond, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, New York, NY, ⁵University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁶University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁷University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by a variety of clinical and molecular phenotypes, for which there exist no widely-available biomarkers. We…
Abstract Number: 2019 • ACR Convergence 2022
Fine Mapping of the Sjögren’s Disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus DDX6-CXCR5 Risk Interval Reveals Common SNPs with Functional Significance in Immune and Salivary Gland Cells
Mandi Wiley¹, Bhuwan Khatri¹, Kandice Tessneer¹, Michelle Joachims¹, Anna Stolarczyk¹, Anna Nagel¹, 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, Hal Scofield¹, Xavier Mariette¹¹, Fai Ng¹², Gunnel Nordmark¹⁰, Betty Tsao¹³ 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, ¹²Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ¹³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's Disease (SjD) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) share several characteristics and have similar genome-wide significant associations in the DDX6-CXCR5 locus. Fine mapping of…
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: 2020 • ACR Convergence 2022
Autophagy-related Risk Loci in Systemic Lupus Erythematous and Sjögren’s Disease
Anna Nagel¹, Bhuwan Khatri¹, Marcin Radziszewski¹, Mandi Wiley¹, Anna Stolarczyk¹, Michelle Joachims¹, 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, Hal Scofield¹, Xavier Mariette¹¹, Marta Alarcon-Riquelme¹², Fai Ng¹³, Gunnel Nordmark¹⁰, Qing Sun¹⁴, Kwangwoo Kim¹⁵, Sang-Cheol Bae¹⁶, Betty Tsao¹⁴, 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, ¹⁴Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁵Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹⁶Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Dysregulated autophagy is implicated in systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) and Sjögren's disease (SjD), including dysregulated expression of Autophagy-related gene 5 (ATG5) and Autophagy Related…
Abstract Number: 1138 • ACR Convergence 2022
Whole-Blood DNA Methylation Analysis Reveals Respiratory Environmental Traits Involved in COVID-19 Severity Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Common Molecular Signatures with Autoimmune Diseases
Guillermo Barturen¹, Elena Carnero-Montoro¹, Manuel Martinez-Bueno¹, Silvia Rojo-Rello², Beatriz Sobrino³, Clara Alcántara-Domínguez⁴, David Bernardo⁵ and Marta Alarcon-Riquelme¹, ¹Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ²Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain, ³Hospital Regional de Málaga, Málaga, Spain, ⁴Lorgen G.P., SL, Granada, Spain, ⁵Universidad de Valladolid-CSIC, Valladolid, Spain
Background/Purpose: SARS-CoV-2 causes a severe inflammatory syndrome (COVID-19) leading, in many cases, to bilateral pneumonia, severe dyspnea and in ~5% of these, death. DNA methylation…
Abstract Number: 2226 • ACR Convergence 2022
Accelerated Aging Based on Blood DNA Methylation in SLE Participants Compared to Healthy Controls
Joanne Nitithalm¹, Olivia Solomon², Laura Trupin³, Patricia Katz⁴, Jinoos Yazdany⁴, Maria Dall'Era⁵, Lisa F Barcellos², Lindsey Criswell⁶ and Cristina M Lanata⁷, ¹NIH/NHGRI, Bethesda, MD, ²University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ³UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UCSF, San Rafael, CA, ⁵University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷NIH/NHGRI, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Epigenetic clocks based on DNA methylation in blood have been shown to correlate with biological aging and predict adverse health outcomes, including mortality. Accelerated…
Abstract Number: 1141 • ACR Convergence 2022
Consequences of SLE Heterogeneity on the Epigenome and the Drivers Behind
Olivia Castellini-Pérez¹, Athina Spiliopoulou², Guillermo Barturen¹, Andrii Iakovliev², Manuel Martinez-Bueno¹, Elena Carnero-Montoro¹ and Marta Alarcon-Riquelme¹, ¹Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ²University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by a complex aetiology and heterogenous symptomatology which has been recently dissected using…
Abstract Number: 0016 • ACR Convergence 2022
Distinct Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Profiles Mediated by Disease Activity in SLE
Yusho Ishii, James Rose, Kevin Cashman, Sakeenah Hicks, Tsuneo Deguchi, Christopher Scharer, Scott Jenks, Jeremy Boss and Iñaki Sanz, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Background/Purpose: SLE is an autoimmune disease heterogenous for symptoms, disease severity and therapeutic response. This heterogeneity makes stratifying patients difficult. B cells from SLE patients…
Abstract Number: 1143 • ACR Convergence 2022
Epigenome-wide Analysis of Osteoarthritis in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Michelle S. Yau¹, Paul C. Okoro², Ida K. Haugen³, John A. Lynch⁴, Michael Nevitt⁵, Cora E. Lewis⁶, James Torner⁷ and David Felson⁸, ¹Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, ³Center for treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ⁴UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁵University of California at San Francisco, Orinda, CA, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁸Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Epigenetic mechanisms like DNA methylation may play a role in OA. For example, expression of GDF5, a well-known OA gene, is modulated by demethylation…
Abstract Number: 0023 • ACR Convergence 2022
New Biomarkers in Hand Osteoarthritis: The Micro-RNA Signature
Maxime Auroux¹, Marjorie Millet², Blandine Merle², Elisabeth Fontanges¹, Florence Duvert¹, Evelyne Gineyts³, Jean-Charles Rousseau³, Olivier Borel², Alexandre Mercier¹, Eric LESPESSAILLES⁴ and Roland Chapurlat¹, ¹Hospices Civils de Lyon, LYON, France, ²INSERM U1033, LYON, France, ³INSERM 1033, Lyon, France, ⁴Regional hospital centre of Orleans, France, ORLEANS, Centre, France
Background/Purpose: Hand osteoarthritis (HOA) is a highly prevalent disease, associated with important disability and socio-economic burden. Erosive HOA, almost exclusively found in women, induces more…
Abstract Number: 1144 • ACR Convergence 2022
Circulating miRNAs and Difficult-To-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Screening Study
Jiří Baloun¹, Aneta Pekčcová², Heřman Mann³, Jiří Vencovský⁴, Karel Pavelka⁵ and Ladislav Šenolt⁴, ¹Institue of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Institue of Rheumatology, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, ³Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁴Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁵Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic
Background/Purpose: Biologic (b-) and targeted synthetic (ts-) disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have brought significant progress in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but a significant…

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