Abstracts tagged "Gene Expression"

Abstract Number: 102 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Xanthine Oxidase Gene Variants and Their Association with Blood Pressure and Incident Hypertension: A Population Based Study
Lieke E.J.M. Scheepers¹, Jan A. Staessen^2,3, Lutgarde Thijs², Erika Salvi⁴, Annelies Boonen⁵ and Ilja C.W. Arts⁶, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands, ²Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology KU Leuven, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ³R & D Group VitaK, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁴Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁶Department of Epidemiology, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, and MaCSBio Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Uric acid (UA) has been associated with blood pressure (BP) and hypertension. During the final stage of purine metabolism, xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) breaks down…
Abstract Number: 1915 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pathogenetic Overlap Between Localised and Systemic Scleroderma: A Study of Nodular and Keloidal Morphea Occurring in Systemic Sclerosis
Emma C. Derrett-Smith¹, Nataliya Gak², Svetlana I. Nihtyanova³, Voon H. Ong³, Victoria Swale², Cate Orteu² and Christopher P. Denton⁴, ¹Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases,, UCL Division of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ²Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³Rheumatology, UCL Division of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Localised scleroderma can occur in overlap with systemic sclerosis (SSc); nodular and keloidal morphea are rare subtypes but can be disfiguring and challenging to…
Abstract Number: 3000 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Intrinsic Gene Expression Subset Predicts Improvement in Systemic Sclerosis Patients during Dasatinib (SprycelTM) Therapy
Viktor Martyanov¹, Jonathan Goldin², Kim Hyun³, Oumar Sy⁴, Wendy Hayes⁴, Shuyan Du⁴, Michael Whitfield¹ and John Varga⁵, ¹Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, ²David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³Radiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Intrinsic gene expression subsets are molecular pathway-driven subtypes of systemic sclerosis (SSc) that have been reproduced across multiple cohorts of SSc patients. The goal…
Abstract Number: 2978 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Characterization of the Sjögren’s Syndrome Intergenic Non-Coding RNA 1 (SSINCR1)
John A. Ice¹, He Li^2,3, Indra Adrianto², Mikhail G. Dozmorov⁴, Astrid Rasmussen⁵, Graham B. Wiley¹, Jennifer A. Kelly¹, Kimberly S. Hefner⁶, Donald U. Stone⁷, Raj Gopalakrishnan⁸, David M. Lewis⁹, Stephen Young⁹, Michael D. Rohrer⁸, Juan-Manuel Anaya¹⁰, Swamy Venuturupalli¹¹, Barbara M. Segal¹², Nelson L. Rhodus¹³, Lida Radfar¹⁴, Michael H. Weisman¹⁵, Judith A. James^16,17, Courtney G. Montgomery¹⁸, R. Hal Scofield^19,20,21, Patrick M. Gaffney¹, Linda F. Thompson²², A. Darise Farris²³, Susan Kovats¹, Jonathan D. Wren¹, Kathy L. Sivils²⁴ and Christopher J. Lessard²⁵, ¹Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Arthritis and Clincial Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁶Hefner Eye Care and Optical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁷Department of Ophthalmology, Dean McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁸Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁹College of Dentistry, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁰Center for Autoimmune Diseases Research (CREA), Universidad del Rosario., Bogota, Colombia, ¹¹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA, ¹²Rheumatology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, ¹³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ¹⁴College of Dentristry, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁶Rheumatology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁷Clinical Arthritis and Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁸Arthritis & Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁹US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²⁰College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²²Immunobiology and Cancer, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²³Arthritis & Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foun, Oklahoma City, OK, ²⁴Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²⁵825 N.E. 13th St., Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a common autoimmune disorder characterized by immune-mediated exocrine gland destruction and systemic inflammatory responses that contribute to clinical heterogeneity. Widespread…
Abstract Number: 1723 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Identification of the Microbiome As a Potential Trigger of Systemic Sclerosis By Metagenomic RNA-Sequencing of Skin Biopsies
Michael Johnson¹, Zhenghui Li¹, Michelle Dimon², Tammara A. Wood¹, Robert Lafyatis³, Sarah Arron² and Michael Whitfield⁴, ¹Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, ²Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Arthritis Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁴Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare and poorly understood systemic autoimmune disease that results in skin fibrosis and severe internal organ involvement. There…
Abstract Number: 2878 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
G Protein Signaling Modulator 3 (GPSM3) Deficiency Is Protective in Inflammatory Arthritis Models and Altered GPSM3 Gene Products Correlate with Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Humans
Teresa K. Tarrant¹, D. Stephen Serafin², Elizabeth Sugg², Roman Timoshchenko², Matthew J. Billard², David P. Siderovski³ and Kristy Richards⁴, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, ⁴Medicine, Dept. of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose GPSM3, a newly described regulator of heterotrimeric G protein signaling, is selectively expressed in hematopoietic cells with high expression in monocytes. We have shown…
Abstract Number: 1619 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Interferon Dysregulation in an Academic SLE Cohort Is Associated with Distinct Signaling Differences in Blood Neutrophils Versus PBMCs
David Drubin¹, Xiang Guo², Linglin Yang³, Rong Zeng³, Yuling Wu³, Mustimbo EliPollard Roberts³, Reynald Lescarbeau¹, Aaron Van Hooser¹, Michael Macoritto¹, Michelle Petri⁴ and Wendy White⁵, ¹Selventa, Cambridge, MA, ²Translational Sciences, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, MD, ³MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Translational Sciences, MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD
Background/Purpose Interferons (IFNs) have long been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the specific consequences of the IFN activity have not…
Abstract Number: 2798 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
C5orf30 a Novel Regulator of Inflammation and Tissue Damage in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Munitta Muthana¹, Sarah Hawtree¹, Holly Davies², Hannah Roberts¹, Sachin Khetan¹, Mohammed Akil³, Fiona Wright¹, Barbara Ciani⁴, Ursula Fearon⁵, DJ Veale⁶ and Anthony G. Wilson⁷, ¹Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, ²University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, ³Rheumatology Department, Sheffield South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, ⁴Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, ⁵Dublin Academic Medical Centre, Translational Rheumatology Research Group, Dublin, Ireland, ⁶Consultant Rheumatologist, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁷Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose A recent genome wide association study identified the variant rs26232 in the first intron of the uncharacterized gene, C5orf30, as a rheumatoid arthritis (RA)…
Abstract Number: 1617 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Single Cell Interferon Signatures in Lupus Patient Monocytes Reveal a Differential Impact of Interferon Signaling Between Monocyte Subtypes
Zhongbo Jin¹, Mark A. Jensen², Jessica M. Dorschner¹, Danielle Vsetecka¹, Shreyasee Amin³, Ashima Makol⁴, Floranne C. Ernste⁵, Thomas Osborn⁶, Kevin G. Moder⁴, Vaidehi Chowdhary³ and Timothy B. Niewold¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Divsion of Rheumatology and Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, ⁶Dept of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinc, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose Type I interferon (IFN) is a primary pathogenic factor in human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). IFN gene expression signatures have been observed in whole blood and mixed peripheral…
Abstract Number: 2687 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Estrogen-Mediated STAT1 Activation By Estrogen Receptor a Induces TLR8 Expression: A Novel Pathogenic Mechanism in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Nicholas Young¹, Giancarlo Valiente², Lai-Chu Wu³, Michael Bruss⁴, Stacy Ardoin², Craig Burd⁵ and Wael N. Jarjour⁶, ¹Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ²Rheumatology and Immunology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ³Immunology and Rheumatology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ⁴Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ⁵Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁶Dept of Rheumatology/Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Background/Purpose: Many autoimmune disorders, including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) display female gender predominance. Previous studies have demonstrated significant hormonal contributions to SLE pathogenesis, including estrogen,…
Abstract Number: 1517 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Analysis of Gene Expression Fluctuation with Abatacept Highlights the Involvement of the Proteasome Pathway As a Mechanism of Action of Abatacept in Rheumatoid Arthritis
C Derambure¹, O Vittecoq^1,2, G Dzangue Tchoupou¹, Maria-Antonietta d'Agostino³, P Gaudin⁴, C Gaillez⁵, M Le Bars⁶ and T Lequerré^1,2, ¹Inserm 905, Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Rouen, Rouen, France, ²Department of Rheumatology, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France, ³AP-HP Ambroise Paré Hospital, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Grenoble, Grenoble, France, ⁵Formerly of Bristol-Myers Squibb, Rueil-Malmaison, France, ⁶Bristol-Myers Squibb, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Background/Purpose: Abatacept (ABA) is a biologic therapy targeting T cells, which play a major role in the pathophysiology of RA. Overall, 57.1% of patients reached…
Abstract Number: 2686 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Gene Array Analysis Reveals Unique Estrogen Signature in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Stephanie Amici¹, Nicholas A. Young², Lai-Chu Wu², Mireia Guerau¹ and Wael N. Jarjour³, ¹Health and Rehab Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ²Immunology and Rheumatology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ³Dept of Rheumatology/Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disorder predominately affecting females in the reproductive age range. Estrogen is present at higher levels in this…
Abstract Number: 1494 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with the JAK1-Selective Inhibitor GLPG0634 Reverses an Arthritis-Specific Blood Gene Signature to Healthy State
Mate Ongenaert¹, Sonia Dupont², Béatrice Vayssière², Reginald Brys¹, Luc Van Rompaey¹, Christel Menet¹ and René Galien², ¹Galapagos NV, Mechelen, Belgium, ²Galapagos SASU, Romainville, France
Background/Purpose The 4 Janus kinases (JAK1, JAK2, JAK3 and TYK2) are cytoplasmic tyrosine kinases that mediate intracellular signaling of cytokines (e.g. certain interleukins and interferons)…
Abstract Number: 2680 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
DNA Hydroxymethylation Changes in CD4+T Cells from Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ming Zhao, Wei Liao, Bochen Zhu, Ruifang Wu and Qianjin Lu, Department of Dermatology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
Background/Purpose Recent studies have uncovered 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) as the sixth base of the genome, and that the Ten-eleven translocation (TET) family proteins is responsible for…
Abstract Number: 1211 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Gene Expression Profile in Muscle Tissue before and after Immunosuppressive Treatment in Patients with Myositis
Joan Raouf¹, Ingela M. Loell², Yi-Wen Chen³, Rongye Shi⁴, Inger Nennesmo⁵, Helene Alexanderson⁶, Maryam Dastmalchi², Marina Korotkova⁷, Kanneboyina Nagaraju^8,9 and Ingrid E. Lundberg^10,11, ¹Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC, USA., Washington DC, DC, ⁴Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Childrens National Medical Center, Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Washington DC, USA, Washington DC, WA, ⁵Institution for Laboratory Medicine (LABMED), Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁶Karolinska Institutet, Department of medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset Solna, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁷Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁸Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washinton D C, DC, ⁹Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC, DC, ¹⁰Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹¹Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose Autoimmune muscle diseases such as polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) are characterized by infiltration of inflammatory cells, production of cytokines and chemokines, as well…

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