Antifibrillarin Antibodies Are Associated with Native North American Ethnicity and Poorer Survival in Systemic Sclerosis

Carolina Mejia Otero; Shervin Assassi; Marie Hudson; Maureen D Mayes; Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin; Claudia Pedroza; Tingting W Mills; Jennifer Walker; Murray Baron; Wendy Stevens; Susanna M Proudman; Mandana Nikpour; Sonal Mehra; Mianbo Wang; Marvin J Fritzler

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Antifibrillarin Antibodies Are Associated with Native North American Ethnicity and Poorer Survival in Systemic Sclerosis

Carolina Mejia Otero, Shervin Assassi, Marie Hudson, Maureen D Mayes, Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin, Claudia Pedroza, Tingting W Mills, Jennifer Walker, Murray Baron, Wendy Stevens, Susanna M Proudman, Mandana Nikpour, Sonal Mehra, Mianbo Wang, Marvin J Fritzler

The Journal of Rheumatology | J RHEUMATOL PUBL CO | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.160574

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Mandana Nikpour Author Medicine - St Vincent's Hospital

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Funding Acknowledgements

Dr. Hudson is funded by the Fonds de la recherche en sante du Quebec. Dr. Nikpour holds a University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Science David Bickart Clinician Researcher Fellowship, and is a recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council research fellowship (APP1071735). Dr. Assassi is funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)/US National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) K23AR061436. Dr. Mayes is funded by NIH/NIAMS AR055258.