About the Authors

Magdalene Nakou

Contributed equally to this work with: Magdalene Nakou, George Bertsias, Dimitrios T. Boumpas, Dimitrios Iliopoulos

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece

George Bertsias

Contributed equally to this work with: Magdalene Nakou, George Bertsias, Dimitrios T. Boumpas, Dimitrios Iliopoulos

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece

Ilias Stagakis

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece

Michael Centola

Affiliation Microarray Research Facility, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Ioannis Tassiulas

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece

Maria Hatziapostolou

Affiliations Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Iraklis Kritikos

† Deceased.

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece

George Goulielmos

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece

Dimitrios T. Boumpas

Contributed equally to this work with: Magdalene Nakou, George Bertsias, Dimitrios T. Boumpas, Dimitrios Iliopoulos

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece

Dimitrios Iliopoulos

Contributed equally to this work with: Magdalene Nakou, George Bertsias, Dimitrios T. Boumpas, Dimitrios Iliopoulos

dimitrios_iliopoulos@dfci.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC IK DB DI. Performed the experiments: MN GB IS MH DI. Analyzed the data: GB IT GNG DI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC GNG DB. Wrote the paper: GB IK DB.