Abstract
Introduction: B cell depletion therapy is efficacious in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients failing on tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blocking agents. However, approximately 40% to 50% of rituximab (RTX) treated RA patients have a poor response. We investigated whether baseline gene expression levels can discriminate between clinical non-responders and responders to RTX.Methods: In 14 consecutive RA patients starting on RTX (test cohort), gene expression profiling on whole peripheral blood RNA was performed by Illumina
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | R95 |
| Journal | Arthritis Research & Therapy |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |