We classified the patients into subgroups depending on the form of disease (lcSSc vs. dcSSc); typical complications, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), scleroderma renal crisis (SRC), pitting scars, ulcers, telangiectasias; or the presence of certain types of anti-nuclear autoantibodies, including ACA, ATA, ARA, ANA without ACA, ATA or ARA, and finally ANA-negative. Here, ATM is linked to pulmonary arterial hypertension.