Abstracts tagged "genomics"

Abstract Number: 0643 • ACR Convergence 2022
Subsetting SLE Patients Based on DNA Methylation at the Time of Disease Flare
Mary Horton¹, Joanne Nitithalm², Kimberly Taylor³, Laura Trupin⁴, Patricia Katz⁵, Jinoos Yazdany⁶, Maria Dall'Era⁷, Lisa Barcellos⁸, Lindsey Criswell⁹ and Cristina M Lanata¹⁰, ¹NIH/NHGRI, Oakland, CA, ²NIH/NHGRI, Bethesda, MD, ³University of Californi, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵UCSF, San Rafael, CA, ⁶UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁷University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ⁸School of Public Health, UC Berkeley; National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Berkeley, CA, ⁹National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁰NIH/NHGRI, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Current treatments for SLE do not adequately prevent disease progression. This lack of efficacy, in part, relates to the molecular heterogeneity of disease. The…
Abstract Number: 1678 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Genome-Wide Association Analysis of 2,622,830 Individuals Reveals New Pathogenic Pathways in Gout
Tony Merriman¹, Hirotaka Matsuo², Riku Takei³, Megan Leask³, Ruth Topless¹, Yuya Shirai⁴, Zhiqiang Li⁵, Murray Cadzow¹, Richard Reynolds³, kenneth saag³, Tayaza Fadason⁶, Justin O'Sullivan⁶, Nicola Dalbeth⁶, Lisa Stamp⁷, Abhishek Abhishek⁸, Michael Doherty⁸, Edward Roddy⁹, Lennart Jacobsson¹⁰, Meliha Kapetanovic¹¹, Mariano Andrès¹², Fernando Perez-Ruiz¹³, Rosa Torres Jimenez¹⁴, Timothy Radstake¹⁵, Timothy Jansen¹⁶, Matthijs Janssen¹⁷, Leo Joosten¹⁸, Tania Octavia Crisan¹⁹, Tom Huizinga²⁰, Frederic LIOTE²¹, Pascal Richette²², Thomas Bardin²³, Tristan Pascart²⁴, Geraldine McCarthy²⁵, Blanka Stiburkova²⁶, Anne Tausche²⁷, Till Uhlig²⁸, Veronique Vitart²⁹, Philip Riches²⁹, Stuart Ralston²⁹, Thomas MacDonald³⁰, Akiyoshi Nakayama², Masahiro Nakatochi³¹, Kimiyoshi Ichida³², Tappei Takada³³, Chaeyoung Lee³⁴, Matthew Brown³⁵, Philip Robinson³⁶, Catherine Hill³⁷, Hyon Choi³⁸, Nicholas Sumpter³, Marilyn Merriman³, Amanda Phipps-Green¹, Wenhua Wei¹, Sally McCormick¹, Olle Melander³⁹, René Toes²⁰, Hang-Korng Ea²¹, Fina Kurreeman²⁰, Laura Helbert²⁵, Thibaud Boutin²⁹, Nariyoshi Shinomiya², Linda Bradbury⁴⁰, Russell Buchanan⁴¹, Susan Lester³⁷, Malcolm Smith⁴², Maureen Rischmueller⁴³, On behalf of Japan Gout Genomics Consortium (J-Gout)⁴⁴, On behalf of Japan Multi-Instl Collab Cohort Study (J-MICC)⁴⁵, Eli Stahl⁴⁶, Jeff Miner⁴⁷, Daniel Solomon⁴⁸, Jing Cui⁴⁸, Kathleen Giacomini⁴⁹, Deanna Brackman⁴⁹, Eric Jorgenson⁵⁰, On behalf of 23andMe Research Team⁵¹, Suyash Shringapure⁵¹, Alexander So⁵², Yukinori Okada⁴, Changgui Li⁵, Yongyong Shi⁵³ and Tanya Major¹, ¹University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ²National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, ⁵The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, ⁶University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁷University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand, ⁸University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, ⁹Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹¹Lund University, Department for clinical sciences Lund, section of rheumatology and Lund University Hospital Lund and Malmö, Lund, Sweden, ¹²Dr Balmis Alicante General University Hospital-ISABIAL, Alicante, Spain, ¹³University of the Basque Country, Barakaldo, Spain, ¹⁴La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁵University Medical College Uthrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ¹⁶VieCuri Medical Centre, Venlo, Netherlands, ¹⁷Rijnstate Hospital, Bennekom, Netherlands, ¹⁸Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ¹⁹University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hatieganu" Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, ²⁰Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²¹University of Paris, Paris, France, ²²Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ²³Hôpital Lariboisiere, Paris, France, ²⁴Lille Catholic University, Lille, France, ²⁵Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ²⁶Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ²⁷University Clinic 'Carl Gustav Carus' at the Technical University, Dresden, Germany, ²⁸Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²⁹University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, ³⁰University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom, ³¹Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan, ³²Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Japan, ³³University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ³⁴Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³⁵Genomics England, London, United Kingdom, ³⁶University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ³⁷The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ³⁸Massachusetts General Hospital, Lexington, MA, ³⁹Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, ⁴⁰Gold Coast University Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴¹Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia, ⁴²Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia, ⁴³RheumatologySA, Adelaide, Australia, ⁴⁴Japan Gout Genomics Consortium (J-Gout), Saitama, Japan, ⁴⁵Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study (J-MICC), Nagoya, Japan, ⁴⁶Regeneron, New York, NY, ⁴⁷ViscientBio, San Diego, CA, ⁴⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴⁹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵⁰Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, CA, ⁵¹23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, ⁵²University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁵³Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Background/Purpose: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in gout have been relatively small (≤13,179 people with gout) and have provided little insight into the progression from hyperuricemia…
Abstract Number: 0774 • ACR Convergence 2022
HLA-DQ2 Is Associated with Anti-drug Antibody Formation to Infliximab Across Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases
Marthe K. Brun¹, Kristin Hammersbøen Bjørlykke², Marte Kathrine Viken³, Grete-Elisabeth Stenvik¹, Rolf Klaasen³, Johanna Elin Gehin³, David Warren³, Joe Sexton¹, Espen Haavardsholm¹, Jørgen Jahnsen², Benedicte Alexandra Lie³, Nils Bolstad³, Kristin Kaasen Jørgensen², Guro Løvik Goll¹ and Silje Watterdal Syversen¹, ¹Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Immunogenicity is a leading cause of treatment failure to TNF inhibitors, and also affects drug safety. Variations in HLA class II genes have been…
Abstract Number: 1699 • ACR Convergence 2022
Arthritis-associated Synovial CD64-Ly6c- myeloid Cells Comprise 2 Subpopulations
Yidan Wang¹, Miranda Gurra¹, Carla Cuda¹, Hadijat Makinde¹, Shangyang Chen¹, Gaurav Gadhvi¹, Salina Dominguez¹, Caroline Shah¹, Deborah Winter² and Harris Perlman¹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University, Skokie, IL
Background/Purpose: Monocytes are critical for the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, depletion of circulating monocytes – either classical or non-classical monocytes – is not…
Abstract Number: 0867 • ACR Convergence 2022
Regulatory Haplotype of CXCR4 Is Associated with sJIA and Corelates with Enhanced Neutrophil and CD14+ Monocyte Migration
Hiroto Nakano¹, Emily Shuldiner², Anne Hinks³, Marc Sudman⁴, Elaine Remmers⁵, Colleen Satorius⁶, Elizabeth Schmitz¹, Victoria Arthur⁷, Patricia Woo⁸, Alexei Grom⁹, Dirk Foell¹⁰, John Bohnsack¹¹, Marco Gattorno¹², Seza Ozen¹³, Sampath Prahalad¹⁴, Rae Yeung¹⁵, Elizabeth Mellins², Sheila Oliveira¹⁶, Jordi Antón¹⁷, Claudio Len¹⁸, Carol Lake¹⁹, Ly-Lan Bergeron²⁰, Michelle Millwood²¹, Estefania de los santos²¹, Mariana Correia Marques²², Juvenile Arthritis Consortium for the Immunochip²³, The Genomic Ascertainment Cohort Investigators²⁴, INCHARGE Consortium²⁵, Carl Langefeld²⁶, Susan Thompson²⁷, Wendy Thomson²⁸ and Michael Ombrello¹, ¹National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ²Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ³The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁵National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ⁶NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁸University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁹Divisions of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ¹⁰University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany, ¹¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹²Pediatric Clinic and Rheumatology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, ¹³Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ¹⁴Emory + Children's Pediatric Institute, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁵The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁶Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, ¹⁷Pediatric Rheumatology Department. Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain, ¹⁸Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁹NIH, Gaithersburg, MD, ²⁰NIH/NIAMS, Vienna, VA, ²¹NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²²National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases / Children`s National Hospital, Bethesda, MD, ²³Juvenile Arthritis Consortium for the Immunochip, Bethesda, MD, ²⁴The Genomic Ascertainment Cohort Investigators, Bethesda, MD, ²⁵International Childhood Arthritis Genetics Consortium, Bethesda, MD, ²⁶Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, ²⁷Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/Univ of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Blue Ash, OH, ²⁸Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) is a rare inflammatory disease that causes spiking fever, skin rash, chronic arthritis, and inflammation of the heart and…
Abstract Number: 1727 • ACR Convergence 2022
BATF Represses BIM Expression to Sustain the T Cell Anergy Program
Philip Titcombe, Milagros Silva-Morales, Na Zhang and Daniel Mueller, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Background/Purpose: T cell tolerance is essential for preventing autoimmune diseases and resolving inflammation. To maintain tolerance, CD4+ T cells recognizing self-antigens in the periphery can…
Abstract Number: 1110 • ACR Convergence 2022
Solving Sarcoidosis: A Transcriptome-based Meta-analysis of Clinical Sarcoidosis Studies Illustrates Shared Pathophysiology, Identifies Candidate Biomarkers and Suggests a Therapeutic Mechanism of JAK Inhibition
Ingrid Lindquist¹, James T. Rosenbaum² and Marcia Friedman³, ¹Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, ²Legacy Devers Eye Institute, Portland, OR, ³Oregon Health and Science University, Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, Portland, OR
Background/Purpose: Sarcoidosis is a systemic, non-caseating granulomatous disease driven by a dysregulated immune response to environmental antigens. A wide range of clinical manifestations coupled with…
Abstract Number: 1731 • ACR Convergence 2022
Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Class II HLA Alleles Restrict the Diversity of the CDR3 and the T Cell Receptor Repertoire in African American Patients
Urvashi Kaundal¹, Chloe Borden¹, Cihan Oguz², Jinghua Lu², Emilee Stenson¹, Ami Shah³, Maureen Mayes⁴, Ayo Doumatey⁵, Amy Bentley⁵, Daniel Shriner⁵, Robyn Domsic⁶, Thomas Medsger⁷, Paula Ramos⁸, Richard Silver⁸, Virginia Steen⁹, John Varga¹⁰, Vivien Hsu¹¹, Lesley Ann Saketkoo¹², Elena Schiopu¹³, Dinesh Khanna¹⁴, Jessica Gordon¹⁵, Lindsey Criswell¹⁶, Heather Gladue¹⁷, Chris Derk¹⁸, Elana Bernstein¹⁹, S. Louis Bridges, Jr.¹⁵, Victoria Shanmugam²⁰, Lorinda Chung²¹, Suzanne Kafaja²², Reem Jan²³, Marcin Trojanowski²⁴, Avram Goldberg²⁵, Benjamin Korman²⁶, Settara Chandrasekharappa⁵, Faiza Naz²⁷, Stefania Dell'Orso¹, Adebowale Adeyemo⁵, Charles Rotimi⁵, Elaine Remmers⁵, Francesco Boin²⁸, Fredrick Wigley²⁹, Peter Sun², Daniel Kastner⁵ and Pravitt Gourh³⁰, ¹National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ²National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ⁵National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ⁶University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁸Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁹Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, ¹⁰University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹¹Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, South Plainfield, NJ, ¹²University Medical Center - Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center and ILD Clinic Programs // New Orleans Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care & Research Centeris, New Orleans, LA, ¹³Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹⁶National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁷Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ¹⁸University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁹Columbia University, New York, NY, ²⁰George Washington University, Great Falls, VA, ²¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²²UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, ²³University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²⁴Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²⁵NYU Langone Medical Center - NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, Lake Success, NY, ²⁶University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²⁷National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, MD, ²⁸Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³⁰National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune, fibrotic disorder that disproportionately affects African Americans (AA). Previous work from our lab and others has suggested a…
Abstract Number: 1118 • ACR Convergence 2022
Monocyte Transcriptomic Analysis Uncovers Heterogeneous Gene Expression Profiles in Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) with and Without Subclinical Atherosclerosis
Laurel Woodridge¹, Elvira Chocano Navarro², George Robinson¹, Paul Ashford¹, Kirsty Waddington³, Anisur Rahman⁴, Christine Orengo⁵, Ines Pineda-Torra⁶ and Elizabeth Jury¹, ¹University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²VIHR, Barcelona, Spain, ³University College London (alumni), London, United Kingdom, ⁴Centre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵ISMB / UCL, London, United Kingdom, ⁶Cabimer, Sevilla, Spain
Background/Purpose: A leading cause of mortality in SLE is cardiovascular disease (CVD) through accelerated atherosclerosis: the build-up of cells and lipids in the vascular wall.…
Abstract Number: 1734 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identification of Sjögren’s Disease-Associated T Cell Receptors Through Deep Sequencing and Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Ananth Aditya Jupudi¹, Michelle Joachims¹, Christina Lawrence¹, Charmaine Lopez-Davis¹, Bhuwan Khatri¹, Astrid Rasmussen¹, Lida Radfar², Kiely Grundahl¹, R. Hal Scofield², Judith James¹, Joel Guthridge¹, Christopher Lessard¹, Linda F. Thompson¹ and A. Darise Farris¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's disease (SjD) is a chronic rheumatic autoimmune disorder that primarily targets the lacrimal and salivary glands (SG) resulting in dry eyes and dry…
Abstract Number: 1119 • ACR Convergence 2022
Investigating Macrophage Heterogeneity in the Esophagus and Lungs of SSc Patients
Hadijat Makinde¹, Carla Cuda¹, Miranda Gurra¹, Mary Carns², Kathleen Aren², Gaurav Gadhvi¹, Salina Dominguez¹, Jane Dematte³, Darren Brenner⁴, John Pandolfino⁵, G. R. Scott Budinger⁴, Deborah Winter⁶ and Harris Perlman¹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ³Northwestern University, Elmhurst, IL, ⁴Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁵Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Wilmette, IL, ⁶Northwestern University, Skokie, IL
Background/Purpose: Our group has made important contributions to an emerging understanding of monocytes and macrophages as central to SSc pathogenesis. There are numerous studies that…
Abstract Number: 1851 • ACR Convergence 2022
Phenotype and Genotype of Adult-onset Adenosine Deaminase 2 Deficiency Patients
Beibei Zu¹, rongrong wang², Xiaorou Wang³, Bingqing Zhang⁴, Na Xu⁴, Chengjin Huang⁴, Min Shen⁵ and Xuejun Zeng⁴, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, XuZhou, China, ²Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ³Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, ⁴Department of General Internal Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Background/Purpose: Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2) is an autosomal recessive autoinflammatory disease, characterized by early‑onset vasculopathy, fever, strokes, livedoid rash, hepatosplenomegaly, and hematologic dysfunction,…
Abstract Number: 1126 • ACR Convergence 2022
Functional NOTCH4 Variants Increase Notch Signaling and Susceptibility for Systemic Sclerosis
Urvashi Kaundal¹, Emilee Stenson¹, Mousumi Sahu¹, Krishan Kumar Thakur¹, Janet Wang¹, Ami Shah², Maureen Mayes³, Ayo Doumatey⁴, Amy Bentley⁴, Daniel Shriner⁴, Robyn Domsic⁵, Thomas Medsger⁶, Paula Ramos⁷, Richard Silver⁷, Virginia Steen⁸, John Varga⁹, Vivien Hsu¹⁰, Lesley Ann Saketkoo¹¹, Elena Schiopu¹², Dinesh Khanna¹³, Jessica Gordon¹⁴, Lindsey Criswell¹⁵, Heather Gladue¹⁶, Chris Derk¹⁷, Elana Bernstein¹⁸, S. Louis Bridges, Jr.¹⁴, Victoria Shanmugam¹⁹, Lorinda Chung²⁰, Suzanne Kafaja²¹, Reem Jan²², Marcin Trojanowski²³, Avram Goldberg²⁴, Benjamin Korman²⁵, Jim Mullikin⁴, Stefania Dell'Orso¹, Adebowale Adeyemo⁴, Charles Rotimi⁴, Elaine Remmers⁴, Daniel Kastner⁴, Fredrick Wigley²⁶, Francesco Boin²⁷ and Pravitt Gourh²⁸, ¹National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ²Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ³Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ⁴National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁸Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, ⁹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁰Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, South Plainfield, NJ, ¹¹University Medical Center - Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center and ILD Clinic Programs // New Orleans Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care & Research Centeris, New Orleans, LA, ¹²Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹⁵National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁶Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ¹⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁸Columbia University, New York, NY, ¹⁹George Washington University, Great Falls, VA, ²⁰Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²¹UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, ²²University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²³Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²⁴NYU Langone Medical Center - NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, Lake Success, NY, ²⁵University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²⁶Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²⁷Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁸National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) have identified several genetic loci, but the search for the causal variant and gene continues.…
Abstract Number: 2164 • ACR Convergence 2022
Profibrotic Alveolar Macrophages as a Potential Biomarker in Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Nikolay Markov¹, Karolina Senkow¹, Anthony Esposito², Jonathan Puchalski³, Mridu Gulati³, Erica Herzog³, Danielle Antin-Ozerkis⁴, Mary Carns⁵, Alyssa Williams⁶, Nic Page⁶, Alexander Misharin¹ and Monique Hinchcliff⁷, ¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁴Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁵Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ⁶Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁷Yale School of Medicine, Westport, CT
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a leading cause of death in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Previously, profibrotic monocyte-derived alveolar macrophages (MoAM) expressing (SPP1,…
Abstract Number: 0008 • ACR Convergence 2021
Jo-1-Binding and Clonally-Expanded Memory B Cells Express Germline and Somatically-Mutated B Cell Receptors in Anti-tRNA Synthetase Syndrome Patients
Erin Wilfong, Alberto Cisneros, Jennifer Young-Glazer, Scott Smith, Leslie Crofford and Rachel Bonami, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background/Purpose: Anti-tRNA synthetase syndrome (ARS) is a severe systemic autoimmune disease associated with myositis, interstitial lung disease, rash, and arthritis. ARS is associated with autoantibodies…

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