View conference programme - The British Society for Rheumatology

17 POLYMORPHISMS OF WISP3 AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS.
RM Lamb 1 , E Zeggini 2 , BPRG Study Group, W Thomson 1 , R Donn 1 . 1
ARC/EU, University of Manchester,
Manchester, United Kingdom; 2 CIGMR, University of Manchester, Manchester,
United Kingdom
18 GENOME WIDE SCREEN ANALYSIS IN MULTIPLEX FAMILIES WITH PRIMARY HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS:
SUGGESTIVE LINKAGE TO CHROMOSOMES 2, 10 AND 11.
GK Meenagh 1 , J Nixon 1 , GD Wright 1 , AE Hughes 2 . 1
Department of Rheumatology, Musgrave Park
Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom; 2 Department of Medical Genetics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast
City Hospital Trust, Belfast, United Kingdom
19 LACK OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CORTICOTROPHIN-RELEASING HORMONE
LOCUS AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
A Julià 1 , D Gallardo 2 , F Vidal 2 , C Tomàs 1 , P Barceló 1 , M Vilardell 3 , S Marsal 1 . 1
Unitat de Recerca de
Reumatologia, Hospital General i Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; 2 Centre de Transfusions i
Banc de Teixits de Barcelona, Servei Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain; 3 Servei de Medicina Interna,
Hospital General i Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
20 A FUNCTIONAL HAPLOTYPE OF THE PADI4 GENE ASSOCIATED WITH RA IN A JAPANESE
POPULATION IS NOT ASSOCIATED IN A UK POPULATION.
J Bowes 1 , S Eyre 1 , K Spreckley 1 , A Hinks 1 , S John 2 , J Worthington 1 , A Barton 1 . 1
ARC-EU, University of
Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 2 University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
21 FUNCTIONAL LYMPHOTOXIN α 5’ POLYMORPHIC VARIANTS INFLUENCE PROMOTER ACTIVITY
IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
C Molloy 1 , C Adams 1 , G O’Donoghue 1 , H Mulcahy 1 , S Busteed 2 , K O’Rourke 1 , C Silke 1 , F Shanahan 3 , MG
Molloy 2 , F O’Gara 1 . 1
Biomerit Research Centre, Microbiology, National University of Ireland (NUI), Cork,
Ireland; 2 Rheumatology, NUI, Cork, Ireland; 3Medicine, NUI, Cork, Ireland
22 GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING OF ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
EP Halligan 1 , J Butler 1 , M Evans 1 , M Cooke 1 , F Falciani 3 , MJ Banks 2 , J Lunec 1 , GD Kitas 2 . 1
Cancer Studies
and Molecular Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom;
2
Rheumatology, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Dudley, United Kingdom; 3 Biosciences, University
of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
23 REFINEMENT OF THE CRH HAPLOTYPE IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
S Steer 1 , SA Fisher 2 , MS Fife 3 , B Lad 1 , J Grumley 1 , A Milicic 4 , P Wordsworth 4 , J Worthington 5 , ARC
National Repository 5 , CM Lewis 2 . 1
Rheumatology, Kings College, London, United Kingdom; 2 Division of
Genetics and Development, Kings College, London, United Kingdom; 3 Paediatric and Adolescent
Rheumatology, University College, London, United Kingdom; 4 Rheumatology, University of Oxford,
Oxford, United Kingdom; 5 ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester,
United Kingdom
24 FINE MAPPING OF NOVEL SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IN
THE TELOMERIC MHC.
AL Coote, RF Kilding, MM Iles, AM Mcdermott, AG Wilson. Division of Genomic Medicine, The
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
25 ASSOCIATION OF MARKERS WITHIN THE FOXP3 GENE WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA).
A Hinks 1 , A Barton 1 , E Zeggini 2 , S Eyre 1 , S John 2 , J Worthington 1 . 1
ARC-EU, University of Manchester,
Manchester, United Kingdom; 2 CIGMR, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
36