TY - JOUR T1 - Response to: ‘The autoantibody repertoire in periodontitis: a role in the induction of autoimmunity to citrullinated proteins in rheumatoid arthritis? Antibodies against uncitrullinated peptides seem to occur prior to the antibodies to the corresponding citrullinated peptides’ by Brink <em>et al</em> JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis SP - e47 LP - e47 DO - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-205519 VL - 73 IS - 7 AU - Paola de Pablo AU - Thomas Dietrich AU - Iain L C Chapple AU - Michael Milward AU - Christopher D Buckley AU - Patrick J Venables Y1 - 2014/07/01 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/73/7/e47.abstract N2 - 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.These results are in line with our results, … ER -