... University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada3Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaCorresponding author: Tanya R Da Sylva, dasylva@yorku.caReceived: ... in RA.Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.Authors' contributionsTD participated in the design of the study, performed some of the molecular ... p53 is randomlymutated during chronic inflammation by oxygen radicals. Cer-tain mutations within p53 then confer a survival advantage to the synoviocytes, giving them 'transformed'...