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We would like to thank Brink et al1 for their interest in our paper. The authors reported that antibodies against arginine-containing peptides from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) autoantigens were present in a population-based sample of 386 individuals with pre-RA. These pre-dated the corresponding antibodies against citrullinated peptides which appeared closer to onset of symptoms.
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Contributors All authors were involved in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and all authors approved the final version.
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Funding This work was supported by ‘Gums & Joints’, a European Union FP7 Grant FP7 HEALTH-F2-2010-261460 and ‘RAPID’, a European Union funded ITN project 290246.
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Competing interests None.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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