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Autoantibodies to fibrillin 1 in systemic sclerosis: ethnic differences in antigen recognition and lack of correlation with specific clinical features or HLA alleles.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Nov 2000
Tan F K, Arnett F C, Reveille J D, Ahn C, Antohi S, Sasaki T, Nishioka K, Bona C A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We previously reported the presence of autoantibodies to the extracellular matrix protein, fibrillin 1, in sera from patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). These autoantibodies appeared to be highly disease-specific but had significantly different frequencies among ethnic groups. The...
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