FRI0279 High prevalence of anti-CD 74 antibodies with specificity for the class II-associated invariant chain peptide (clip) in patients with axial spondyloarthritis but not in controls

Abstract

BackgroundThe pathogenesis of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) including ankylosing spondylitis (AS), although known to be strongly associated with genes such as the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B27, is still largely unclear....