About the Authors

Qing-Sheng Mi

qmi1@hfhs.org (QSM); lzhou1@hfhs.org (LZ)

Affiliations Henry Ford Immunology Program, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Matthew Weiland

Affiliations Henry Ford Immunology Program, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Rui-Qun Qi

Affiliations Henry Ford Immunology Program, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, No 1 Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Xing-Hua Gao

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, No 1 Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Laila M. Poisson

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Li Zhou

qmi1@hfhs.org (QSM); lzhou1@hfhs.org (LZ)

Affiliations Henry Ford Immunology Program, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QSM LZ MW RQ XG. Performed the experiments: MW RQ QSM LZ. Analyzed the data: MW RQ LP QSM LZ. Wrote the paper: MW QSM LZ XG.