About the Authors

Patrick Danoy

Affiliation The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Karena Pryce

Affiliation The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Johanna Hadler

Affiliation The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Linda A. Bradbury

Affiliation The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Claire Farrar

Affiliation University of Oxford Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jennifer Pointon

Affiliation University of Oxford Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Australo-Anglo-American Spondyloarthritis Consortium (TASC)
Michael Ward

Affiliation National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Weisman

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

John D. Reveille

Affiliation Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

B. Paul Wordsworth

Affiliation University of Oxford Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Millicent A. Stone

Affiliation University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada (SPARCC)
Walter P. Maksymowych

Affiliation The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Proton Rahman

Affiliation Memorial University, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada

Dafna Gladman

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robert D. Inman

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Matthew A. Brown

matt.brown@uq.edu.au

Affiliations The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia, University of Oxford Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD MAB. Performed the experiments: KP JH MAB. Analyzed the data: MAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD LAB CF JP MW MW JDR BPW MAS WPM PR DG RDI. Wrote the paper: PD MAB.