Auto-antibodies and disease characteristics in rheumatoid arthritis

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Veerle Somers, Researcher: Dr. Liesbeth De Winter

This study focuses on the correlation between auto-antibodies as biomarkers and as disease markers of rheumatoid arthritis in order to validate the diagnostic and prognostic potential of candidate biomarkers and to investigate the biological relevance of the new antigen-antibody response in the disease process

Publications:

• De Winter LM, Geusens P, Lenaerts J, Vanhoof J, Stinissen P, Somers V. The isotype repertoire of antibodies against novel UH-RA peptides in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2016;18(1):130.