Abstracts tagged "Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and psoriatic arthritis"

Abstract Number: 1894 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Association Of Alleles and Amino Acids Of The Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Chain-Related Gene A With Psoriatic Disease
Remy Pollock¹, Fawnda Pellett², Renise Ayearst³, Fatima Abji¹, Dafna D. Gladman² and Vinod Chandran², ¹University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: We previously reported associations between alleles of the major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene A (MICA) and psoriatic disease that were independent of…
Abstract Number: 1003 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Role of Particular Class I MHC Haplotypes in Determining Different Traits within the Psoriatic Arthritis Phenotypes
Muhammad Haroon¹, Jon T. Giles², Robert Winchester³ and Oliver M. FitzGerald¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Dublin Academic Medical Center, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ²Division of Rheumatology, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, ³Dept of Medicine & Pathology, Columbia University, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: A rigorously ascertained psoriatic arthritis (PsA) cohort demonstrated considerable genetic heterogeneity and provided preliminary evidence that MHC genes determine quantitative traits within the PsA…