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Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 606195, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/606195
Review Article

Clinical and Pathological Roles of Ro/SSA Autoantibody System

Ryusuke Yoshimi,1 Atsuhisa Ueda,1 Keiko Ozato,2 and Yoshiaki Ishigatsubo1

1Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan
2Program in Genomics of Differentiation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

Received 4 October 2012; Accepted 19 November 2012

Academic Editor: Dimitrios P. Bogdanos

Copyright © 2012 Ryusuke Yoshimi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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