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Anti-DFS70/LEDGF Antibodies Are More Prevalent in Healthy Individuals Compared to Patients with Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

MICHAEL MAHLER, TODD PARKER, CAROL L. PEEBLES, LUIS E. ANDRADE, ANDREAS SWART, YVETTE CARBONE, DAVID J. FERGUSON, DANILO VILLALTA, NICOLA BIZZARO, JOHN G. HANLY and MARVIN J. FRITZLER
The Journal of Rheumatology November 2012, 39 (11) 2104-2110; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.120598
MICHAEL MAHLER
From the Department of Research, Inova Diagnostics Inc., San Diego, California, USA; Fleury Medicine and Health Laboratory, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; Neuss Center for Rheumatology, Neuss, Germany; BC Biomedical Laboratories Ltd., Surrey, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, AO S. Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy; Laboratory of Clinical Pathology, San Antonio Hospital, Tolmezzo, Italy; Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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