TY - JOUR T1 - The Genetic Basis of Spondyloarthritis: SPARTAN/IGAS 2009 JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 2626 LP - 2631 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.100892 VL - 37 IS - 12 AU - DAVID M. EVANS AU - JOHN D. REVEILLE AU - MATTHEW A. BROWN AU - VINOD CHANDRAN AU - DAFNA D. GLADMAN AU - TAMMY M. MARTIN AU - DERMOT McGOVERN AU - PAUL WORDSWORTH AU - ROBERT D. INMAN Y1 - 2010/12/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/37/12/2626.abstract N2 - A joint meeting was held in July 2009 in Houston, Texas, of members of the Spondyloarthritis Research and Therapy Network (SPARTAN), founded in 2003 to promote research, education, and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and related forms of spondyloarthritis (SpA), and members of International Genetics of AS (IGAS), founded in 2003 to encourage and coordinate studies internationally in the genetics of AS. The general topic was the genetic basis of SpA, with presentations on the future of human genetic studies; microbes, SpA, and innate immunity; susceptibility of AS to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and non-MHC; and individual discussions of the genetics of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, uveitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and enteropathic arthritis. Summaries of those discussions are presented. ER -