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Abstract Number: 488 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Exploring the Association Between Air Pollutant Exposure and Seropositivity in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Asha Mariam Alex^1,2, Gary A. Kunkel³, Jorge Flautero Arcos⁴, Richard Amdur⁵ and Gail S. Kerr⁶, ¹Rheumatology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, ²Rheumatology, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ³Division of Rheumatology, George Wahlen VA Medical Center/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Rheumatology, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, ⁵Lead Biostatistician, Medical Faculty Associates Clinical Professor, Dept. of Surgery, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, DC, ⁶Washington DC VAMC, Georgetown University Hospital, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: The etiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is multi-factorial, with expression of HLA-DRB1 shared epitope (SE), smoking and socioeconomic status (SES) exerting influence. Prior studies…
Abstract Number: 985 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effectiveness of a Web-Based Personalized Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk Tool with or without a Health Educator for Knowledge of RA Risk Factors
Maria G. Prado¹, Rachel Miller Kroouze¹, Zhi Yu¹, Maura D. Iversen^2,3,4, Nellie A. Triedman¹, Sarah S. Kalia⁵, Kevin D. Deane⁶, Karen H. Costenbader¹, Bing Lu¹, Robert C. Green⁵, Elizabeth W. Karlson¹ and Jeffrey A. Sparks⁷, ¹Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ⁷Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Much progress has been made in identifying risk factors for RA, but it is unclear whether individuals at risk for RA have knowledge of…
Abstract Number: 1211 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Allele-Dependent Binding of a Viral Protein to Autoimmune Disease-Associated Genetic Variants
Matthew T. Weirauch¹, Daniel Miller¹, Leah C. Kottyan², Ignacio Ibarra³, Sayeed Syed⁴, Xiaoting Chen¹, Erin Zoller¹, Arthur Lynch¹, Connor Schroeder¹, Josh Lee¹, Albert Magnussen¹, Ally Yang⁵, Timothy R. Hughes⁵, Joo-Seop Park¹, Charles Vinson⁴ and John B. Harley^6,7, ¹Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ²Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ³EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, ⁴NCI, Bethesda, MD, ⁵University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁷Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE), Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Methods: We tested the hypothesis that some autoimmune variants might act by altering the binding of the EBV-encoded transcription factor ZTA, consequently resulting in downstream…
Abstract Number: 1559 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Shared Genetic Predisposition in Rheumatoid Arthritis–Interstitial Lung Disease and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Genetic Association Study
Pierre-Antoine Juge¹, Raphaël Borie², Caroline Kannengiesser³, Steven Gazal³, Patrick Revy⁴, Lidwine Wemeau-Stervinou⁵, Marie-Pierre Debray⁶, Sébastien Ottaviani⁷, Sylvain Adam-Marchand⁸, Nadia Nathan⁹, Gabriel Thabut¹⁰, Christophe Richez¹¹, Hilario Nunes¹², Isabelle Callebaut¹³, Aurélien Justet², Nicolas Leulliot¹⁴, Amélie Bonnefond¹⁵, David Salgado¹⁶, Pascal Richette¹⁷, Jean-Pierre Desvignes¹⁶, Huguette Lioté¹⁸, Philippe Froguel¹⁵, Yannick Allanore¹⁹, Olivier Sand¹⁵, Claire Dromer²⁰, René-Marc Flipo²¹, Annick Clément⁹, Christophe Béroud²², Jean Sibilia²³, Baptiste Coustet^1,24, Vincent Cottin²⁵, Marie-Christophe Boissier²⁶, Benoit Wallaert²⁷, Thierry Schaeverbeke²⁸, Florence Dasto le Moal²⁹, Aline Frazier¹⁷, Christelle Ménard³⁰, Martin Soubrier³¹, Nathalie Saidenberg²⁹, Dominique Valeyre³², Serge Amselem⁹, Catherine Boileau³, Bruno Crestani² and Philippe Dieudé¹, ¹Rhumatologie, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, Paris, France, ²Pneumologie A, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, Paris, France, ³Génétique, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, Paris, France, ⁴Laboratory of Genome Dynamics in the Immune System, Institut Imagine, Paris, France, ⁵Pneumologie, CHRU de Lille, Lille, France, ⁶Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France, ⁷Rheumatologie, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, Paris, France, ⁸Pneumology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tours, Tours, France, ⁹Pneumologie pédiatrique, Hôpital Trousseau, Paris, France, ¹⁰Pneumologie B, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, Paris, France, ¹¹Rhumatologie, Department of Rheumatology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ¹²Pneumologie B, Hôpital Avicenne, Paris, France, ¹³CNRS UMR_7590, Paris, France, ¹⁴Laboratoire de cristallographie et RMN biologiques, UMR CNRS 8015, Paris, France, ¹⁵CNRS UMR_8199, Lille, France, ¹⁶UMR_S 910, Marseille, France, ¹⁷Rhumatologie, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France, ¹⁸Pneumologie A, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France, ¹⁹Rhumatologie A, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, ²⁰Imagerie Thoracique et Cardiovasculaire, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ²¹Rhumatologie, CHU Lille, Lille, France, ²²INSERM UMR_S 910, Marseille, France, ²³Department of Rheumatology, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ²⁴Rheumatology, Université Paris Descartes, Hopital Cochin, Paris, France, ²⁵Louis Pradel Hospital, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, Lyon, France, ²⁶Li2P, University of Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Bobigny, France, ²⁷Pneumology, CHRU, Lille CEDEX, France, ²⁸Rheumatology, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, ²⁹Rhumatologie, Hôpital Avicenne, Paris, France, ³⁰Pneumologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Trousseau, Paris, France, ³¹Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, CHU Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ³²Department of Pneumology, Avicenne Hospital (AP-HP), Bobigny, France
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is one of the leading causes of mortality for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Despite its high prevalence and mortality, little…
Abstract Number: 1573 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Major Histocompatibility Antigen HLA-DQ6.1 (DQA1*0103/DQB1*0601) Increases Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk Independent of Shared Epitope Among Indians
Able Lawrence¹, Swayam Prakash², Uddalak Bharadwaj³, Amita Aggarwal⁴, Ramnath Misra⁴ and Suraksha Agrawal², ¹Clinical Immunology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India, ²Medical Genetics, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India, ³MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ⁴Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
Background/Purpose: The association of HLA-DRB1 shared epitope (SE) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) does not completely explain MHC association. The HLA-DRB1 alleles are classified into high…
Abstract Number: 2032 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genome-Wide Association Analysis Reveals Novel Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Susceptibility Loci
Laura A McIntosh¹, Miranda C Marion², Marc Sudman¹, Mary E Comeau², Sampath Prahalad³, John F. Bohnsack⁴, Johannes P Haas⁵, Carol A Wallace⁶, Daniel J Lovell⁷, Thomas A Griffin⁸, Mara L Becker⁹, Peter A Nigrovic^10,11, Marilynn Punaro¹², Carlos D Rosé¹³, Carol A Wise¹⁴, Halima Moncrieffe¹⁵, Timothy D Howard¹⁶, Carl D Langefeld¹⁷, Susan D Thompson^15,18 and Boston Children’s JIA Registry, JIA gene expression studies, NIAMS JIA genetic registry, TREAT study, Understanding TNF Therapy in JIA Project, ¹Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Biostatistical Sciences and Center for Public Health Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ³Pediatrics, Emory Children's Center, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Division of Allergy, Immunology and Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵German Centre for Rheumatology in Children and Young People, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, ⁶Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ⁷Rheumatology, PRCSG Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cinncinnati, OH, ⁸Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, ⁹Rheumatology, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹¹Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹²Pediatric Rheumatology, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, TX, ¹³Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology, Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Thomas Jefferson University, Wilmington, DE, ¹⁴Seay Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, TX, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ¹⁶Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ¹⁷Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ¹⁸Center for Autoimmune Disease Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common childhood rheumatic disease, affecting approximately 1 in 1,000 children. JIA is a complex genetic trait and…
Abstract Number: 2033 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Multi-Dimensional Genomic Map for Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
James Jarvis¹, Lisha Zhu², Kaiyu Jiang³, Michael Buck², Yanmin Chen³, Halima Moncrieffe⁴, Laura Brungs⁴, Tao Liu⁵ and Ting Wang⁶, ¹Pediatrics, SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, ²Biochemistry, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ³Pediatrics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ⁴Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁵Department of Biochemistry, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ⁶Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Background/Purpose: Polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a complex trait characterized by gene-environment interactions. While we are beginning to identify multiple genomic regions associated with…
Abstract Number: 2818 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Associations of IL23R, BMP6 and PTGS1 Polymorphisms with Radiographic Severity of Ankylosing Spondylitis
Gulsen Ozen¹, Rabia Deniz², Fatih Eren³, Can Erzik³, Ali Ugur Unal¹, Sibel Z. Aydin⁴, Nevsun Inanc¹, Haner Direskeneli¹ and Pamir Atagunduz¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Department of Medical Biology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Koc University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory disease affecting spine which may lead to new bone formation and disability. However, the radiographic severity of AS…
Abstract Number: 2828 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Profiling Immunogenic Bacteria within the Microbiota of ZAP-70 Mutant SKG Mice Associated with Spondyloarthritis and Ileitis Using IgA-SEQ
Linda Rehaume¹, Alicia Kang¹, Olga Zbarskaya¹, Jane Mullaney¹, Matthew Kim¹, Paraic O Cuiv¹, Nicola Angel², Philip Hugenholtz², Mark Morrison¹ and Ranjeny Thomas¹, ¹Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia, ²Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Background/Purpose: IgA production is the main barrier mechanism of mucosal surfaces. High affinity IgA is generated through T cell-dependent mechanisms and preferentially binds to invasive…
Abstract Number: 2995 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genome Wide Analysis in Scleroderma Renal Crisis: Defining Genetic Risk in Patients with RNA Polymerase III Auto-Antibodies
Maria C Fonseca¹, Sandra Guerra¹, Edward Stern^1,2, Svetlana I. Nihtyanova¹, David Abraham³, Aine Burns², Mark Harber² and Christopher P. Denton⁴, ¹Rheumatology, UCL Division of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ²Nephrology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Disease, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) is a severe complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Most SSc cases demonstrate a disease-specific antinuclear antibody including anti-RNA polymerase III…
Abstract Number: 3001 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Exome Sequencing for Identification of Potential Causal Variants for Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis
Angel CY Mak¹, Paul LF Tang², Clare Cleveland^3,4, M Kari Connolly⁵, Tamiko Katsumoto^3,4, Paul Wolters⁶, Pui-Yan Kwok^2,5 and Lindsey A. Criswell⁷, ¹Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁷Rosalind Russell / Ephraim P. Engleman Rheumatology Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma is a genetically complex autoimmune disease with substantial phenotypic heterogeneity. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a large number of gene regions…
Abstract Number: 3225 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Whole Exome Sequencing Identifies Rare Protein-Coding Variants in Behcet’s Disease
Mikhail Ognenovski¹, Paul Renauer¹, Ina Koetter², Joerg C. Henes³, Bruno Casali⁴, Carlo Salvarani⁵, Haner Direskeneli⁶, Kenneth M. Kaufman⁷ and Amr H. Sawalha¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Internal Medicine IV Rheumatology, Asklepios Klinik Altona, Hamburg, Germany, ³Department of Internal Medicine II, Rheumatology Division, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁴Divisione di Biologia Molecolare, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁵Rheumatology, Arcispedale S.Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁷Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Behcet’s disease (BD) is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers, skin lesions, uveitis, and other organ complications such as…
Abstract Number: 3227 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Identification of Novel Protein-Coding Genetic Variants Associated with Takayasu Arteritis
Paul Renauer¹, Patrick Coit¹, Peter A. Merkel² and Amr H. Sawalha¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Penn Vasculitis Center, Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Takayasu arteritis is a rare large vessel vasculitis of unclear etiology. Previous studies identified associations between Takayasu arteritis and genetic variants within HLA class…
Abstract Number: 93 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
An HLA-C Amino Acid Variant in Addition to HLA-B*27 Confers Risk for Ankylosing Spondylitis in the Korean Population
Kwangwoo Kim¹, So-Young Bang², Seunghun Lee³, Hye-Soon Lee², Seung-Cheol Shim⁴, Young Mo Kang⁵, Chang-Hee Suh⁶, Celi Sun⁷, Swapan Nath⁷, Sang-Cheol Bae² and Tae-Hwan Kim², ¹Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, South Korea, ²Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, South Korea, ³Department of Radiology, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Daejeon Rheumatoid and Degenerative Arthritis Center, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea, ⁵Dept of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, South Korea, ⁶Allergy-Rheumatology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea, ⁷Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a highly heritable rheumatic disease causing chronic inflammation of axial spine, joints and various organs. The presence of HLA-B*27 is…
Abstract Number: 3248 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Which Factors Explain Multi-Site Pain Caused By Obesity: A 5-Year Follow-up Study in Older Adults?
Feng Pan¹, Laura Laslett², Russell Thomson², Tania Winzenberg³, Flavia Cicuttini⁴, Changhai Ding⁵ and Graeme Jones⁵, ¹Musculoskeletal Unit, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart,7000, Australia, ²Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, ³Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart,7000, Australia, ⁴Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁵Musculoskeletal Unit, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Background/Purpose: Joint pain is common in older adults; typically multiple joints are involved. Obesity is an important risk factor in pathogenesis of multi-site joint pain…

Abstracts tagged "genetics"

Exploring the Association Between Air Pollutant Exposure and Seropositivity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Effectiveness of a Web-Based Personalized Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk Tool with or without a Health Educator for Knowledge of RA Risk Factors

Allele-Dependent Binding of a Viral Protein to Autoimmune Disease-Associated Genetic Variants

Shared Genetic Predisposition in Rheumatoid Arthritis–Interstitial Lung Disease and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Genetic Association Study

Major Histocompatibility Antigen HLA-DQ6.1 (DQA10103/DQB10601) Increases Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk Independent of Shared Epitope Among Indians

Genome-Wide Association Analysis Reveals Novel Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Susceptibility Loci

A Multi-Dimensional Genomic Map for Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Associations of IL23R, BMP6 and PTGS1 Polymorphisms with Radiographic Severity of Ankylosing Spondylitis

Profiling Immunogenic Bacteria within the Microbiota of ZAP-70 Mutant SKG Mice Associated with Spondyloarthritis and Ileitis Using IgA-SEQ

Genome Wide Analysis in Scleroderma Renal Crisis: Defining Genetic Risk in Patients with RNA Polymerase III Auto-Antibodies

Exome Sequencing for Identification of Potential Causal Variants for Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis

Whole Exome Sequencing Identifies Rare Protein-Coding Variants in Behcet’s Disease

Identification of Novel Protein-Coding Genetic Variants Associated with Takayasu Arteritis

An HLA-C Amino Acid Variant in Addition to HLA-B*27 Confers Risk for Ankylosing Spondylitis in the Korean Population

Which Factors Explain Multi-Site Pain Caused By Obesity: A 5-Year Follow-up Study in Older Adults?