Abstracts tagged "Sjogren’s syndrome and transcriptional regulation"

Abstract Number: 2978 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Characterization of the Sjögren’s Syndrome Intergenic Non-Coding RNA 1 (SSINCR1)
John A. Ice¹, He Li^2,3, Indra Adrianto², Mikhail G. Dozmorov⁴, Astrid Rasmussen⁵, Graham B. Wiley¹, Jennifer A. Kelly¹, Kimberly S. Hefner⁶, Donald U. Stone⁷, Raj Gopalakrishnan⁸, David M. Lewis⁹, Stephen Young⁹, Michael D. Rohrer⁸, Juan-Manuel Anaya¹⁰, Swamy Venuturupalli¹¹, Barbara M. Segal¹², Nelson L. Rhodus¹³, Lida Radfar¹⁴, Michael H. Weisman¹⁵, Judith A. James^16,17, Courtney G. Montgomery¹⁸, R. Hal Scofield^19,20,21, Patrick M. Gaffney¹, Linda F. Thompson²², A. Darise Farris²³, Susan Kovats¹, Jonathan D. Wren¹, Kathy L. Sivils²⁴ and Christopher J. Lessard²⁵, ¹Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Arthritis and Clincial Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁶Hefner Eye Care and Optical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁷Department of Ophthalmology, Dean McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁸Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁹College of Dentistry, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁰Center for Autoimmune Diseases Research (CREA), Universidad del Rosario., Bogota, Colombia, ¹¹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA, ¹²Rheumatology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, ¹³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ¹⁴College of Dentristry, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁶Rheumatology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁷Clinical Arthritis and Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁸Arthritis & Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁹US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²⁰College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²²Immunobiology and Cancer, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²³Arthritis & Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foun, Oklahoma City, OK, ²⁴Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²⁵825 N.E. 13th St., Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a common autoimmune disorder characterized by immune-mediated exocrine gland destruction and systemic inflammatory responses that contribute to clinical heterogeneity. Widespread…