Nalli, Cecilia
Somma, Valentina
Andreoli, Laura
Büttner, Thomas
Schierack, Peter
Mahler, Michael
Roggenbuck, Dirk http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6861-6827
Tincani, Angela
Article History
Received: 6 May 2018
Accepted: 14 May 2018
First Online: 29 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: DR has a management role and is a shareholder of GA Generic Assays GmbH and Medipan GmbH. Both companies are diagnostic manufacturers. MM is employed at Inova Diagnostics selling autoantibody assays. TB is employed at GA Generic Assays selling autoantibody assays. VS is an employee of Medipan. All the other authors declare that they have no financial competing and non-financial conflicts of interest.
: The study was approved by the local ethics committee and was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 (revised 2008).
: We hereby declare that all the patients were examined in the outpatient clinic at the Division of Rheumatology of the University of Brescia in Italy, and they have all consented to donate their sera for the purpose of this publication. Furthermore, this study was approved by the local ethical committee