Unified Framework for Autoimmune Disease Development

As an alliance that represents investigators across many autoimmune disease, we propose that there is a common framework that can be applied to the development of autoimmunity, which includes three phases:

  • Biological activity (no symptoms)
  • Evidence of target organ involvement (non-specific symptoms)
  • Clinical/Symptomatic Disease (meets officially recognized diagnostic/classification criteria)

It is our goal to be able to identify markers of and treatments that can be applied to phase B to prevent or delay the development of clinical disease.

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