For this purpose, the genotyping of 552 SNPs located in gene regions of semaphorins 4b, 4d, 4f, DKK1, 2 and 3, sclerostin, OPG, RANK and RANKL was performed using Immunochip from Illumina Inc. in 268 patients from the Princesa Early Arthritis Register Longitudinal (PEARL) study. Here, SOST is linked to Arthritis.