Abstract Number: 19 • Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium 2017
Kacie Hoyt1, Edwin Anderson1,2, Megan L. Curran3, Robert Fuhlbrigge4, Luigi Notarangelo5, Lauren M. Pachman6, Susan Kim7 and Lauren Henderson8, 1Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Clinical Research Center/Rheumatology, Boston Children's Hospital, Medford, MA, 3Pediatric Rheumatology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 4Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, 5National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, 6Cure JM Program of Excellence in Juvenile Myositis Research, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, affiliated with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 7Pediatric Rheumatology, University of California, San francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 8Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: In adult dermatomyositis (DM), clonal populations of T and B cells with shared variable (V) gene usage have been identified in affected muscle, suggesting…