Abstracts tagged "Inheritance"

Abstract Number: 1104 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Heritability and Familial Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Sweden: A Population-based Case-control Study
Elizabeth Arkema¹, Marios Rossides ¹, Christopher Sjöwall ², Elisabet Svenungsson ³ and Julia Simard ⁴, ¹Clinical Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Rheumatology/Division of Neuro and Inflammation Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Previous studies examining the relative risk (RR) associated with having a first degree relative (FDR) with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were small and few…
Abstract Number: 939 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Canakinumab in Active Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D with Periodic Fever Syndrome
Juan Ignacio Arostegui¹, Jordi Anton², Inmaculada Calvo-Penedes³, Angel Robles⁴, Antonio Speziale⁵, Yolandi Joubert⁵, Guido Junge⁵ and Jordi Yagüe⁶, ¹Department of Immunology-CDB, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain, ²Unitat de Reumatologia Pediàtrica, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain, ³Hospital de La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ⁴Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁶Immunology Department, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D with periodic fever syndrome (HIDS) is a recessively inherited disorder characterized by periodic episodes of high fever, abdominal distress, joint pain, and…
Abstract Number: 650 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Parental Influence On Systemic Sclerosis
Tracy M. Frech¹, Richard Pimentel², Allen D. Sawitzke³, Gopi Penmetsa⁴ and Jathine Wong², ¹Internal Medicine, Salt Lake City VAMC, Salt Lake, UT, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT, ³Rheumatology, University of Utah Medical Ctr, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Rheumatology Division, University Of Utah Hospital, Salt lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: A genealogic resource, the Utah Population Database (UPDB) has successfully identified systemic sclerosis (SSc) pedigrees and hereditable risk for this disease (1). We hypothesized…