Abstracts tagged "T cells and methylation"

Abstract Number: 1821 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Demethylated CD4+CD28+KIR+CD11ahi T Cells Are Characterized By a Pro-Inflammatory Transcriptome and Interact with Genetic Risk to Predict Disease Activity in Lupus
Paul Renauer¹, Patrick Coit¹, Faith Strickland², Elizabeth Gensterblum¹, Mikhail Ognenovski¹, Bruce Richardson³ and Amr Sawalha⁴, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Rheumatology, University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor VA, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Internal Medicine-Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: T cell DNA methylation defects play an important role in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus. A CD4+CD28+ T cell subset characterized by overexpression…