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PHARMACOGENOMICS JOURNAL
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 516-523Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41397-019-0139-4
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- Medical Research Council [MR/K015346/1] Funding Source: Medline
- Versus Arthritis [20670] Funding Source: Medline
- Department of Health Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [MR/K015346/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Seropositivity for anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic autoimmune arthritis, is associated with worse long-term disease outcomes. ACPA is ubiquitously tested in RA patients, but other autoantibodies exist (in both citrullinated and non-citrullinated form) which may provide additional information on RA subtypes and/or treatment response. We used a multiplex bead-based assay of 376 autoantibodies to test associations between these autoantibodies and treatment response in RA patients. Clusters of patients with similar autoantibody expression were defined and cluster membership was associated with treatment response. Thirty-four autoantibodies were differentially expressed in RA patients compared with healthy controls; citrullinated vimentin was associated with treatment response. A selection of citrullinated autoantibodies was found to be associated with treatment response in a subanalysis of ACPA-negative RA patients. Finer ACPA specificities in ACPA-negative RA patients may be predictive of treatment response and could represent a rich vein of future study.
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