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Basic and translational research

• Extended report: Anti-TNFα agents curb platelet activation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (27 January, 2016)

  Angelo A Manfredi, Mattia Baldini, Marina Camera, Elena Baldissera, Marta Brambilla, Giuseppe Peretti, Attilio Maseri, Patrizia Rovere-Querini, Elena Tremoli, Maria Grazia Sabbadini, Norma Maugeri
• Extended report:

  Influence of TYK2 in systemic sclerosis susceptibility: a new locus in the IL-12 pathway

  (2 September, 2015)

  Elena López-Isac, Diana Campillo-Davo, Lara Bossini-Castillo, Sandra G Guerra, Shervin Assassi, Carmen Pilar Simeón, Patricia Carreira, Norberto Ortego-Centeno, Paloma García de la Peña, the Spanish Scleroderma Group, Lorenzo Beretta, Alessandro Santaniello, Chiara Bellocchi, Claudio Lunardi, Gianluca Moroncini, Armando Gabrielli, Gabriela Riemekasten, Torsten Witte, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Alexander Kreuter, Jörg HW Distler, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Jeska de Vries-Bouwstra, Ariane Herrick, Jane Worthington, Christopher P Denton, Carmen Fonseca, Timothy RDJ Radstake, Maureen D Mayes, Javier Martín
• Extended report: MicroRNA markers of inflammation and remodelling in temporal arteries from patients with giant cell arteritis (4 September, 2015)

  Stefania Croci, Alessandro Zerbini, Luigi Boiardi, Francesco Muratore, Alessandra Bisagni, Davide Nicoli, Enrico Farnetti, Giulia Pazzola, Luca Cimino, Antonio Moramarco, Alberto Cavazza, Bruno Casali, Maria Parmeggiani, Carlo Salvarani
• Extended report:

  The genetic association of RUNX3 with ankylosing spondylitis can be explained by allele-specific effects on IRF4 recruitment that alter gene expression

  (9 October, 2015)

  Matteo Vecellio, Amity R Roberts, Carla J Cohen, Adrian Cortes, Julian C Knight, Paul Bowness, B Paul Wordsworth
• Extended report: Decreased expression of neuropilin-1 as a novel key factor contributing to peripheral microvasculopathy and defective angiogenesis in systemic sclerosis (10 September, 2015)

  Eloisa Romano, Inês Chora, Mirko Manetti, Celestina Mazzotta, Irene Rosa, Silvia Bellando-Randone, Jelena Blagojevic, Raquel Soares, Jerôme Avouac, Yannick Allanore, Lidia Ibba-Manneschi, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Serena Guiducci
• Extended report: Next-generation sequencing and its initial applications for molecular diagnosis of systemic auto-inflammatory diseases (17 September, 2015)

  Marta Rusmini, Silvia Federici, Francesco Caroli, Alice Grossi, Maurizia Baldi, Laura Obici, Antonella Insalaco, Alberto Tommasini, Roberta Caorsi, Eleonora Gallo, Alma Nunzia Olivieri, AngeloValerio Marzano, Domenico Coviello, Roberto Ravazzolo, Alberto Martini, Marco Gattorno, Isabella Ceccherini
• Extended report: Dense genotyping of immune-related loci in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies confirms HLA alleles as the strongest genetic risk factor and suggests different genetic background for major clinical subgroups (11 September, 2015)

  Simon Rothwell, Robert G Cooper, Ingrid E Lundberg, Frederick W Miller, Peter K Gregersen, John Bowes, Jiri Vencovsky, Katalin Danko, Vidya Limaye, Albert Selva-O'Callaghan, Michael G Hanna, Pedro M Machado, Lauren M Pachman, Ann M Reed, Lisa G Rider, Joanna Cobb, Hazel Platt, Øyvind Molberg, Olivier Benveniste, Pernille Mathiesen, Timothy Radstake, Andrea Doria, Jan De Bleecker, Boel De Paepe, Britta Maurer, William E Ollier, Leonid Padyukov, Terrance P O'Hanlon, Annette Lee, Christopher I Amos, Christian Gieger, Thomas Meitinger, Juliane Winkelmann, Lucy R Wedderburn, Hector Chinoy, Janine A Lamb
• Extended report: The interferon type I signature is present in systemic sclerosis before overt fibrosis and might contribute to its pathogenesis through high BAFF gene expression and high collagen synthesis (14 September, 2015)

  Zana Brkic, Lenny van Bon, Marta Cossu, Cornelia G van Helden-Meeuwsen, Madelon C Vonk, Hanneke Knaapen, Wim van den Berg, Virgil A Dalm, Paul L Van Daele, Adriana Severino, Naomi I Maria, Samara Guillen, Willem A Dik, Lorenzo Beretta, Marjan A Versnel, Timothy Radstake