Which diseases are associated with the different antibodies measured in the ANA profile?
Pearl: An ANA-positive patient with an autoimmune disease frequently may not have one of the specific autoantibodies. This is because of the 100 to 150 ANAs against specific autoantigens that have been described, only about 10 of the most common are routinely tested for.
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