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Transcriptional signature associated with early rheumatoid arthritis and healthy individuals at high risk to develop the disease.

N Macías-SeguraJulio Enrique Castañeda-DelgadoY BastianD Santiago-AlgarraJ D Castillo-OrtizA L Alemán-NavarroE Jaime-SánchezM Gomez-MorenoC A Saucedo-ToralEdgar E Lara-RamírezM Zapata-ZuñigaL Enciso-MorenoR González-AmaroC Ramos-RemusJ A Enciso-Moreno
Published in: PloS one (2018)
The presence of a specific transcriptome in whole blood of RA patients suggests the activation of a specific inflammatory transcriptional signature in early RA development. The set of overexpressed genes in early RA patients that are shared with ACCP+ subjects but not with ACCP- subjects, can represent a transcriptional signature involved with the transition of a preclinical to a clinical RA stage. Some of these particular up-regulated and down-regulated genes are related to inflammatory processes and could be considered as biomarker candidates for disease progression in subjects at risk to develop RA.
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