Comparison of autoantibody specificities between traditional and bead-based assays in a large, diverse collection of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and family members.

Objective: Replacement of standard immunofluorescence methods with bead-based assays for antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing is a new clinical option. The aim of this study was to evaluate a large, multiethnic cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), blood relatives, and unaffected control individuals for familial aggregation and subset clustering of autoantibodies by high-throughput serum screening technology and traditional methods.

Methods: Serum samples (1,540 SLE patients, 1,154 unaffected relatives, and 906 healthy, population-based controls) were analyzed for SLE autoantibodies using a bead-based assay, indirect immunofluorescence (IIF), and immunodiffusion.

Multiple Autoantibodies Display Association with Lymphopenia, Proteinuria, and Cellular Casts in a Large, Ethnically Diverse SLE Patient Cohort.

Purpose. This study evaluates high-throughput autoantibody screening and determines associated systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) clinical features in a large lupus cohort. Methods.

Male-only systemic lupus.

Objective: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is more common among women than men, a ratio of about 10 to 1. We undertook this study to describe familial male SLE within a large familial SLE cohort.

Methods: SLE families (2 or more patients) were identified from the Lupus Multiplex Registry and Repository.

60 kD Ro and nRNP A frequently initiate human lupus autoimmunity.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a clinically heterogeneous, humoral autoimmune disorder. The unifying feature among SLE patients is the production of large quantities of autoantibodies. Serum samples from 129 patients collected before the onset of SLE and while in the United States military were evaluated for early pre-clinical serologic events.

An altered immune response to Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus.

Objective: New examples support the concept that host immune responses to pathogenic organisms can act as the nidus for autoimmunity. Two such examples implicate the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), i.e.

Humoral antigenic targets of the ribosomal P0 lupus autoantigen are not limited to the carboxyl region.

Autoantibodies binding the ribosomal P phosphoproteins are highly specific for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and can be found in precipitating levels in approximately 15% of these patients. Anti-ribosomal P antibodies are directed against three proteins, and the primary autoimmune target of this response has been described as a common 22-amino acid sequence. Sera from 31 anti-ribosomal P immunodiffusion-positive SLE patients were tested for C-terminal P-peptide reactivity by ELISA.