About the Authors

Yannick Allanore

yannick.allanore@cch.aphp.fr

Affiliations Université Paris Descartes, Rhumatologie A, INSERM, U1016, Hôpital Cochin, APHP, Paris, France, INSERM, U781, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France

Mohamad Saad

Affiliation INSERM, U563, CHU Purpan, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Philippe Dieudé

Affiliation Université Paris Diderot, Rhumatologie, INSERM, U699, Hôpital Bichat Claude-Bernard, Paris, France

Jérôme Avouac

Affiliations Université Paris Descartes, Rhumatologie A, INSERM, U1016, Hôpital Cochin, APHP, Paris, France, INSERM, U781, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France

Jorg H. W. Distler

Affiliation Department for Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

Philippe Amouyel

Affiliation INSERM, U744, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Université de Lille Nord, Lille, France

Marco Matucci-Cerinic

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, Division of Rheumatology AOUC, Denothe Centre, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Gabriella Riemekasten

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Paolo Airo

Affiliation Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy

Inga Melchers

Affiliation Clinical Research Unit for Rheumatology, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Eric Hachulla

Affiliation Lille II University, Internal Medecine Department, Lille, France

Daniele Cusi

Affiliations University of Milano, Department of Medicine, Surgery, and Dentistry San Paolo School of Medicine, Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform, Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy

H.-Erich Wichmann

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Julien Wipff

Affiliations Université Paris Descartes, Rhumatologie A, INSERM, U1016, Hôpital Cochin, APHP, Paris, France, INSERM, U781, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France

Jean-Charles Lambert

Affiliation INSERM, U744, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Université de Lille Nord, Lille, France

Nicolas Hunzelmann

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

Kiet Tiev

Affiliation Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France

Paola Caramaschi

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Elisabeth Diot

Affiliation INSERM, U618, IFR 135, CHU Bretonneau, Tours, France

Otylia Kowal-Bielecka

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

Gabriele Valentini

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Second University of Naples, Naples Italy

Luc Mouthon

Affiliation Université Paris Descartes, Médecine Interne, Hôpital Cochin, APHP, Paris, France

László Czirják

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Nemanja Damjanov

Affiliation Institute of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Erika Salvi

Affiliations University of Milano, Department of Medicine, Surgery, and Dentistry San Paolo School of Medicine, Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform, Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy

Costanza Conti

Affiliation Kos Genetic SRL, Milano, Italy

Martina Müller

Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology and Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Ulf Müller-Ladner

Affiliation University of Giessen, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Kerckhoff-Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Valeria Riccieri

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialities, University “Sapienza,” Rome, Italy

Barbara Ruiz

Affiliation INSERM, U781, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France

Jean-Luc Cracowski

Affiliation INSERM, CIC3, CHU Grenoble, France

Luc Letenneur

Affiliations INSERM, U897, Bordeaux, France, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France

Anne Marie Dupuy

Affiliation INSERM, U888, Hôpital de la Colombière, Montpellier, France

Oliver Meyer

Affiliation Université Paris Diderot, Rhumatologie, INSERM, U699, Hôpital Bichat Claude-Bernard, Paris, France

André Kahan

Affiliation Université Paris Descartes, Rhumatologie A, INSERM, U1016, Hôpital Cochin, APHP, Paris, France

Arnold Munnich

Affiliation INSERM, U781, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France

Catherine Boileau

Affiliations INSERM, U781, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France, Université Versailles-SQY, Laboratoire de Biochimie, d'Hormonologie et de Génétique Moléculaire, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, AP-HP, Boulogne, France

Maria Martinez

Affiliation INSERM, U563, CHU Purpan, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y Allanore, M Saad, P Dieudé, J Avouac, JHW Distler, C Boileau, M Martinez. Performed the experiments: Y Allanore, M Saad, P Dieudé, J Avouac, C Boileau, M Martinez. Analyzed the data: Y Allanore, M Saad, P Dieudé, J Avouac, JHW Distler, C Boileau, M Martinez. Wrote the paper: Y Allanore, M Saad, P Dieudé, J Avouac, C Boileau, M Martinez. Revised the manuscript: Y Allanore, M Saad, P Dieudé, J Avouac, JHW Distler, P Amouyel, M Matucci-Cerinic, G Riemekasten, P Airo, I Melchers, E Hachulla, D Cusi, H-E Wichmann, J Wipff, J-C Lambert, N Hunzelmann, K Tiev, P Caramaschi, E Diot, O Kowal-Bielecka, G Valentini, L Mouthon, L Czirják, N Damjanov, E Salvi, C Conti, M Müller, U Müller-Ladner, V Riccieri, B Ruiz, J-L Cracowski, L Letenneur, A-M Dupuy, O Meyer, A Kahan, A Munnich, C Boileau, M Martinez. Contributed to sampling (biomaterial and clinical data): Y Allanore, P Dieudé, J Avouac, JHW Distler, P Amouyel, M Matucci-Cerinic, G Riemekasten, P Airo, I Melchers, E Hachulla, D Cusi, H-E Wichmann, J Wipff, J-C Lambert, N Hunzelmann, K Tiev, P Caramaschi, E Diot, O Kowal-Bielecka, G Valentini, L Mouthon, L Czirják, N Damjanov, E Salvi, C Conti, M Müller, U Müller-Ladner, V Riccieri, B Ruiz, J-L Cracowski, L Letenneur, A-M Dupuy, O Meyer, A Kahan, A Munnich.