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If a patient had met ACR criteria, but with follow up was unequivocally diagnosed as having another well-characterized rheumatic disease, this individual was not included in the definition of RA.
Autoantibodies directed against the Golgi complex were first identified in the serum of a Sjögren's syndrome patient with lymphoma [ 1 ] . Subsequent reports described anti-Golgi complex autoantibodies (AGA) in patients with systemic rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus [ 2 ] , rheumatoid arthritis [ 3 ] , and Wegener's granulomatosis [ 4 ] . Immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation studies have shown that there was heterogeneity of reactivity among AGA [ 5 ] .
Autoantibodies can be detected in a spectrum of rheumatic diseases where they may be highly associated with distinct clinical syndromes.
This pattern of mutations has been described for cold agglutinins [ 32], as well as for rheumatic factors, as a mechanism of selection against amino acid replacement to prevent the generation of high-affinity autoantibodies [ 33].
AS = ankylosing spondylitis; B27 = histocompatibility antigen B27; CREST = calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysfunction, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia; E 2 = estradiol-17β JRA = juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; RA = rheumatoid arthritis; RAD = rheumatic/autoimmune disease; SLE = systemic lupus erythematosus.