About the Authors

Huaxia Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huaxia Yang, Hui Liu, Dong Xu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Hui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huaxia Yang, Hui Liu, Dong Xu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Dongfang Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Dong Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huaxia Yang, Hui Liu, Dong Xu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Lidan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Qian Wang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaomei Leng

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Wenjie Zheng

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Fengchun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Fulin Tang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Xuan Zhang

zxpumch2003@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ FZ. Performed the experiments: LZ QW XL WZ FT. Analyzed the data: HY HL DX XZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: HY XZ.