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South Australian Scleroderma Register: autoantibodies as predictive biomarkers of phenotype and outcome.
International journal of rheumatic diseases - 1 Feb 2012
Graf Scott W, Hakendorf Paul, Lester Sue, Patterson Karen, Walker Jenny G, Smith Malcolm D, Ahern Michael J, Roberts-Thomson Peter J
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AIM: To investigate the relationship between scleroderma-specific autoantibodies and clinical phenotype and survival in South Australian patients with scleroderma. METHOD: Two cohorts of patients were studied from the South Australian Scleroderma Register (SASR). In the first, the sera of 129 consecutive patients were analyzed for anticentromere (ACA), anti-Scl70, anti-RNA polymerase III, anti-U1RNP, anti-Th/To,...
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