In 2002, the American-European Consensus Group (AECG) proposed a set of classification criteria for pSS [3,4], that includes dry mouth, dry eyes, reduced salivary secretion, reduced lacrimal secretion, presence of Ro/SSA and/or La/SSB autoantibodies, and lymphocyte infiltration in minor salivary glands. This evidence concerns the gene CALR and xerostomia.