About the Authors

Dong Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Xu, Xin You, Zhengang Wang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education; No.1 Shuaifuyuan, Beijing, 100730, China

Xin You

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Xu, Xin You, Zhengang Wang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education; No.1 Shuaifuyuan, Beijing, 100730, China

Zhengang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Xu, Xin You, Zhengang Wang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, NO 1, Dong Jiao Min Xiang, Eastern District, Beijing, 100730, China

Qingyu Zeng

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, No.57 ChangPingLu, Shantou, 515041, China

Jianhua Xu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 JiXiLu, Hefei, 230022, China

Lindi Jiang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, No.180 FengLinLu, Shanghai, 200032, China

Lu Gong

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, the General Hospital of Tianjing Medical University, No.154 AnShanDao, Tianjing, 300052, China

Fengqi Wu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, No.2 YaBaoLu, Beijing, 100020, China

Jieruo Gu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, No.600 TianHeLu, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Yi Tao

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, No.107 YanJiangXiLu, Guangzhou, 510120, China

Jinwei Chen

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, No.139 RenMinZhongLu, Changsha, 410011, China

Jiuliang Zhao

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education; No.1 Shuaifuyuan, Beijing, 100730, China

Mengtao Li

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education; No.1 Shuaifuyuan, Beijing, 100730, China

Yan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education; No.1 Shuaifuyuan, Beijing, 100730, China

Xiaofeng Zeng

xiaofeng.zeng@cstar.org.cn

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education; No.1 Shuaifuyuan, Beijing, 100730, China

CSTAR co-authors

The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX XY ZGW XFZ. Performed the experiments: DX XY ZGW QYZ JHX LDJ LG FQW JRG YT JWC JLZ MTL YZ XFZ. Analyzed the data: JLZ MTL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DX XY ZGW QYZ JHX LDJ LG FQW JRG YT JWC JLZ MTL YZ XFZ. Wrote the paper: DX XY ZGW QYZ.