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As also shown in Figure 2, this antiserum reacted with a protein of the expected molecular mass in representative samples of immunoaffinity-purified synovial fluid from patients with psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis, gout, and ankylosing spondylitis.
This map will definitely assist in the refinement of the Blau syndrome locus as well as other loci mapping to this region, such as Crohn's disease [ 5 ] , psoriasis [ 8 ] and possibly ankylosing spondylitis [ 9 10 ] .
Among male patients reported to date who have hypogonadism and RAD are individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) [ 4, 5, 6, 7], lupus anticoagulant and antiphospholipid syndrome associated [ 8], scleroderma [ 9, 10, 11, 12], rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [ 13], ankylosing spondylitis (AS) [ 14, 15, 16], and polymyositis [ 17], while Turner's syndrome has been associated with autoimmune thyroiditis [ 3], juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) [ 18], and juvenile-onset inflammatory bowel disease [ 19].
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.
Interestingly, another autoimmune disease ankylosing spondylitis (MIM 106300), also maps to chromosome 16q, however, it appears to map telomeric to the Blau syndrome interval [ 9 10 ] .