About the Authors
- Paula S. Ramos
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* E-mail: ramosp@musc.edu
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Lindsey A. Criswell
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Affiliation Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Kathy L. Moser
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Affiliation Arthritis and Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Mary E. Comeau
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Adrienne H. Williams
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Nicholas M. Pajewski
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Sharon A. Chung
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Affiliation Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Robert R. Graham
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Affiliation Immunology Biomarkers Group, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Raphael Zidovetzki
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
- Jennifer A. Kelly
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Affiliation Arthritis and Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Kenneth M. Kaufman
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Chaim O. Jacob
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Timothy J. Vyse
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Affiliation Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Betty P. Tsao
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Affiliation David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Robert P. Kimberly
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Patrick M. Gaffney
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Affiliation Arthritis and Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme
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Affiliations Arthritis and Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Centro de Genómica y Investigaciones Oncológicas, Pfizer-Universidad de Granada-Junta de Andalucía, Granada, Spain
- John B. Harley
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Carl D. Langefeld
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- for The International Consortium on the Genetics of Systemic Erythematosus (SLEGEN)
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¶Membership of SLEGEN is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
RRG is an employee of Genentech.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PSR NMP CDL. Performed the experiments: PSR MEC AHW NMP. Analyzed the data: PSR NMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAC KLM NMP SAC RRG RZ JAK KMK COJ TJV BPT RPK PMG MEA-R JBH CDL. Wrote the paper: PSR LAC NMP SAC CDL.