No significant correlations by Spearman’s rank test were found between type of capillary pattern and EC marker levels at t=1 (n=32 cSLE), but a weak positive correlation was found between levels of angiopoietin-2 with a scleroderma capillary pattern at t=2 (n=6 cSLE) (R2=0.167, F(2, 25)=2514, p=0.039) (data not shown). The gene discussed is ANGPT2; the disease is scleroderma.