Abstracts tagged "Systemic JIA and genetics"

Abstract Number: 8 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Examination of Reported Risk Loci from Candidate Gene Studies of Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Identifies Link between IL1RN Variation and both Disease Susceptibility and Response to Interleukin-1 Directed Therapy
Victoria Arthur¹, Emily Shuldiner¹, Anne Hinks², The International Childhood Arthritis Genetics (INCHARGE) Consortium³, Patricia Woo⁴, Wendy Thomson², Elaine F. Remmers⁵ and Michael J. Ombrello¹, ¹Translational Genetics and Genomics Unit, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²Arthritis Research UK Centre for Genetics and Genomics,The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³INCHARGE Consortium, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Paediatric Rheumatology Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Inflammatory Disease Section, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Systemic JIA (sJIA) is a childhood inflammatory disease whose pathophysiology is poorly understood. sJIA is phenotypically heterogeneous with variable manifestations and responses to treatment.…