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01-04-2014 | Letter
Development of anti-citrullinated protein antibody and rheumatoid factor isotypes prior to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis
Authors:
Wouter H Bos, Lotte A van de Stadt, Azita Sohrabian, Johan Rönnelid, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg
Published in:
Arthritis Research & Therapy
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Issue 2/2014
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Excerpt
We and others have previously shown that the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is preceded by IgG anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) and rheumatoid factor (RF) [
1,
2]. Furthermore, it was shown that other isotypes of ACPA (IgA and, to a lesser extent, the IgM isotype) also predate the onset of RA [
3]. Moreover, smoking has been linked to the development of IgA ACPA in the preclinical phase [
3]. …