About the Authors

Elena Zinovieva

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France

Catherine Bourgain

Affiliation INSERM U535, Université Paris Sud – Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France

Amir Kadi

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France

Franck Letourneur

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France

Brigitte Izac

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France

Roula Said-Nahal

Affiliation Rheumatology Division, Ambroise Paré Hospital (AP-HP), and Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines University, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Nicolas Lebrun

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France

Nicolas Cagnard

Affiliation Bioinformatics Platform, Faculty of Medicine Paris Descartes, Necker Hospital, Paris, France

Agathe Vigier

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France

Sébastien Jacques

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France

Corinne Miceli-Richard

Affiliation Rheumatology Division, Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital (AP-HP), Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Henri-Jean Garchon

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France

Simon Heath

Affiliation National Genotyping Center (CNG), Evry, France

Céline Charon

Affiliation National Genotyping Center (CNG), Evry, France

Delphine Bacq

Affiliation National Genotyping Center (CNG), Evry, France

Anne Boland

Affiliation National Genotyping Center (CNG), Evry, France

Diana Zelenika

Affiliation National Genotyping Center (CNG), Evry, France

Gilles Chiocchia

Contributed equally to this work with: Gilles Chiocchia, Maxime Breban

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France, Rheumatology Division, Ambroise Paré Hospital (AP-HP), and Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines University, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Maxime Breban

Contributed equally to this work with: Gilles Chiocchia, Maxime Breban

maxime.breban@apr.aphp.fr

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France, INSERM U567, Paris, France, Rheumatology Division, Ambroise Paré Hospital (AP-HP), and Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines University, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EZ CB AK FL BI RSN CMR HJG SH DZ GC MB. Performed the experiments: EZ AK FL BI NL AV SJ SH CC DB AB. Analyzed the data: EZ CB AK FL BI NL NC AV HJG SH CC AB DZ GC MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB FL RSN NL NC MB. Wrote the paper: EZ CB CC GC MB.