Assessing the sensitivity and specificity of myositis-specific and associated autoantibodies : a sub-study from the MyoCite cohort

© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology..

OBJECTIVES: Myositis-specific and associated autoantibodies are important biomarkers in routine clinical use. We assessed local testing performance for myositis autoantibodies by comparing line immunoassay (LIA) to protein radio-immunoprecipitation and identifying clinical characteristics associated with each myositis autoantibody in the MyoCite cohort.

METHODS: Serum samples from patients within the MyoCite cohort, a well-characterised retro-prospective dataset of adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) patients in Lucknow, India (2017-2020), underwent LIA at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Science (SGPGIMS), Lucknow. Immunoprecipitation of 147 IIM patient serum samples (125 adult-onset, 22 juvenile-onset) was conducted at the University of Bath, with researchers blind to LIA results. LIA performance was assessed against Immunoprecipitation as the reference standard, measuring sensitivity, specificity, and inter-rater agreement. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression determined clinical associations for specific MSA.

RESULTS: Immunoprecipitation identified myositis autoantibodies in 56.5% (n = 83) of patient samples, with anti-Jo1 (n = 16; 10.9%) as the most common, followed by anti-MDA5 (n = 14, 9.5%). While LIA showed good agreement for anti-Jo1, anti-PL7 and anti-PL12 (Cohen's κ 0.79, 0.83, and 1, respectively), poor agreement was observed in other subgroups, notably anti-TIF1γ (Cohen's κ 0.21). Strongly positive samples, especially in myositis-specific autoantibodies, correlated more with immunoprecipitation results. Overall, 59 (40.1%) samples exhibited non-congruence on LIA and Immunoprecipitation, and κ values for LIA's for anti-TIF1γ, anti-Ku, anti-PmScl, anti-Mi2, and anti-SAE ranged between 0.21-0.60.

CONCLUSION: While LIA reliably detected anti-Jo1, anti-PL7, anti-PL12, anti-MDA5, and anti-NXP-2, it also displayed false positives and negatives. Its effectiveness in detecting other autoantibodies, such as anti-TIF1γ, was poor.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - (2024) vom: 13. März

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Englisch

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Loganathan, Aravinthan [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Latika [VerfasserIn]
Rudge, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Bowler, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
McMorrow, Fionnuala [VerfasserIn]
Naveen, R [VerfasserIn]
Anuja, Anamika K [VerfasserIn]
Agarwal, Vikas [VerfasserIn]
McHugh, Neil [VerfasserIn]
Tansley, Sarah [VerfasserIn]

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Autoantibodies
Dermatomyositis
Immunoprecipitation clinical associations
Indian population
Inflammatory myositis
Journal Article
Juvenile dermatomyositis
Polymyositis

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Date Revised 13.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1093/rheumatology/keae167

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NLM369695178