[The aims of this study were 3-fold: 1) to determine whether sera from SSc patients of different ethnic backgrounds recognized different antigenic epitopes of fibrillin 1, 2) to determine whether sera from patients with polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM) with or without interstitial lung disease (ILD) also produced these antibodies, and 3) to determine any correlation of anti-fibrillin 1 antibodies with specific clinical features of SSc, other autoantibodies, or HLA class II alleles in a prospectively studied cohort of SSc patients with early (<5 years' duration) disease (the Genetics versus Environment In Scleroderma Outcome Study [GENISOS] cohort).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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