Abstracts tagged "giant cell arteritis and polymorphism"

Abstract Number: 1952 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Lack of Association of a 6.7 Kbp Deletion of LILRA3 with Giant Cell Arteritis
Ana Márquez¹, Tamara Fernández-Aranguren², Maria C. Cid³, José Hernández-Rodríguez³, Roser Solans⁴, Marc Ramentol⁴, Santos Castañeda⁵, Jose A. Miranda-Filloy⁶, Inmaculada C. Morado⁷, Javier Narváez⁸, Eugenio De Miguel⁹, Bernardo Sopeña¹⁰, Jordi Monfort¹¹, Maria Jesus Garcia-Villanueva¹², Norberto Ortego-Centeno¹³, Torsten Witte¹⁴, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Gay¹⁵, Javier Martín² and Spanish GCA Group, ¹Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, IPBLN-CSIC, PTS-Granada and Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Hospital Clínico San Cecilio, Granada, Spain, ²Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López- Neyra, IPBLN-CSIC, PTS-Granada, Granada, Spain, ³Vasculitis Research Unit, Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic University of Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Autoimmune Systemic Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitario de La Princesa. IIS La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Xeral-Calde, Lugo, Spain, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Department of Internal Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology, Grup de recerca cel•lular en inflamació i cartílag. IMIM (Institut de Recerca Hospital del Mar), Barcelona, Spain, ¹²Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Hospital Clínico San Cecilio, Granada, Spain, ¹⁴Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor A3 (LILRA3A) encodes a member of a family of immunoreceptors which is predominantly expressed on antigen presenting cells, acting as a…