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Available online /content/6/5/223 Viewpoint Biomarkers for systemic lupus erythematosus: has the right time finally arrived? Barbara B Mittleman Science and Technology Branch/Chief, Scientific Interchange Section/National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases/National Institutes of Health/US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda MD, USA Corresponding author: Barbara B Mittleman, mittlemb@ Published: 12 Aug 2004 Arthritis Res Ther 2004, 6:223-224 (DOI 10.1186/ar1186) ? 2004 BioMed Central Ltd The concept of ‘biomarkers’ is a concept that is, at once,