Mutation at position c.476-252G>A was predicted to possibly have an impact on splicing of the SNRNP70 transcript and it was present only in one MCTD patient.
Among the seven tested SNPs, four polymorphisms: IFN-A rs10757212, IFN-A rs3758236, IFN-G rs2069705, IFN-G rs2069718, as well as INF-G rs1861493A/rs2069705A/rs2069718G haplotype were significantly associated with a predisposition for MCTD.
We also found that anti-U1-A autoantibodies most frequently occurred in MCTD patients with rs2069718 GA genotype, while the IFN-G rs2069705 AG and rs2069718 GA genotypes might be a marker of anti-Ro60 presence in MCTD patients.
The prevalence of ANA was increased in most patients with systemic especially in neuropathy (NP), hemolytic anemia (HA), primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS), dermatomyositis (DM), thrombocytopenia (Tb), systemic sclerosis (SSc), ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), AP, Renal impairment (RI), SLE, and mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD).
Interestingly, for <i>IRF7, IFI44</i> genes, and the <i>HLA</i> region we have evidence that they could be exerting a genetic risk on MCTD mediated through DNA methylation changes.
Presence of anti-U1-RNP antibodies in patients fulfilling SLE criteria (but not the MCTD ones) was associated with manifestations such as Raynaud phenomenon, musculoskeletal and lung impairment or nail fold capillaroscopy changes, some clinical features frequently encountered in MCTD patients and only rarely described in lupus population.
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease (SARD) characterised by the combination of clinical manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), cutaneous systemic sclerosis (SSc) and polymyositis-dermatomyositis, in the presence of elevated titers of anti-U1-RNP antibodies.
Anti-HDL antibodies were negatively associated with PON1 activity in MCTD (<i>r</i> = -0.767, <i>p</i> < 0.001) and AAV (<i>r</i> = -0.478, <i>p</i> = 0.005), whereas both anti-HDL and anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibod levels were related to an impaired PON1 activity and TAC in IBD/UC.
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is characterized by the presence of anti-U1-snRNP autoantibodies and a variable set of associated clinical features.
On the other hand, multivariate logistic regression analyses with calculation of the area under the curve of the receiver-operating characteristic curve suggested that a higher serum level of SP-D was a significant predictor of FVC decline in SSc/MCTD-associated ILD.
Serum samples obtained from 314 patients including dermatomyositis (DM) (n=144), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (n=50), systemic sclerosis (SSc) (n=50), Sjögren's syndrome (SS) (n=50), polymyositis (PM) (n=10) and mixed connective tissue disease (n=10), and healthy controls (n=42) in addition to 10 patients with typical sIBM were analysed for the presence of autoantibodies using full-length recombinant NT5C1A ELISA.
Anti-RNP autoantibodies occur either in mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) (with a frequently favorable prognosis), or in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) cases with aggressive major organ disease.
DNTs (CD3(+)CD56(-)TCRαβ(+)CD4(-)CD8(-)) from peripheral blood mononuclear cells were analyzed by flow cytometry from 54 pediatric patients including: 23 SLE, 15 JIA, 11 ANA and 5 MCTD compared to 28 healthy controls.