ArticleFrontiers in immunology2023
Isolated anti-Ro52 identifies a severe subset of Sjögren's syndrome patients.
Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Beyond anti-SSA and anti-SSB. The clinical significance of new antibodies in the diagnosis of Sjögren disease.Rheumatology international · 2026Pooled it
- From Sjögren syndrome to Sjögren disease: rethinking classification and diagnostic complexity.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2026Review
- Longitudinal evolution of rheumatoid factor-expressing lymphoma precursors in a patient with Sjögren's disease.Journal of translational autoimmunity · 2026Article
- Triglyceride-glucose index and anti-Ro52 antibody for identification of cardiovascular disease in patients with primary Sjögren's disease.Lipids in health and disease · 2026Article
- TRIM21 autoantibodies are associated with blood-brain barrier dysfunction in a subgroup of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2026Article
- Antibodies against Ro52 in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are associated with objective sicca symptoms.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Non-Conventional and Emerging Autoantibodies in Sjögren's Disease.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Review
- Anti-centromere protein B antibody positivity in primary Sjögren's disease: clinical features and prognostic implications.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Regulatory T cell therapy for Sjögren's disease: From pathogenesis to targeted treatment.Journal of translational autoimmunity · 2025Review
- Primary Sjögren disease patients of Asian and Middle Eastern ancestry have early-onset but similar disease activity.Internal medicine journal · 2025Article
- Self-reactive B cells are increased in all major stages of peripheral development in Sjögren's disease.Immunology and cell biology · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of APRIL in autoimmunity: implications for therapeutic targeting in systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, and Sjögren's syndrome.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Sjögren's syndrome positive for isolated anti-Ro52/SS-A antibody and anti-centromere antibody.The Journal of international medical research · 2024Article
- Ro60-Roles in RNA Processing, Inflammation, and Rheumatic Autoimmune Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Roles of TRIM21/Ro52 in connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Serological intermolecular epitope spreading in a patient with primary Sjögren's syndrome.BMJ case reports · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: Serum autoantibodies targeting the SSA/Ro proteins are a key component of the classification criteria for the diagnosis of Sjögren's syndrome (SS). Most patients' serum reacts with both Ro60 and Ro52 proteins. Here we compare the molecular and clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with SS with anti-Ro52 in the presence or absence of anti-Ro60/La autoantibodies. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed. Patients in the SS biobank at Westmead Hospital (Sydney, Australia) that were positive for anti-Ro52 were included and stratified based on the absence (isolated) or presence (combined) of anti-Ro60/La, measured by line immunoassay. We examined clinical associations and the serological and molecular characteristics of anti-Ro52 using ELISA and mass spectrometry in serological groups. Results: A total of 123 SS patients were included for study. SS patients with isolated anti-Ro52 (12%) identified a severe serological subset characterised by higher disease activity, vasculitis, pulmonary involvement, rheumatoid factor (RhF) and cryoglobulinaemia. Serum antibodies reacting with Ro52 in the isolated anti-Ro52 subset displayed less isotype switching, less immunoglobulin variable region subfamily usage and a lower degree of somatic hypermutation than the combined anti-Ro52 subset. Conclusions: In our cohort of SS patients, isolated anti-Ro52 represents a severe subset of SS, and is associated with the presence of cryoglobulinaemia. We therefore provide clinical relevance to the stratification of SS patients by their sero-reactivities. It is possible that the autoantibody patterns may be immunological epiphenomena of the underlying disease process, and further work is required to unearth the mechanisms of the differential clinical phenotypes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.