About the Authors
- F. David Carmona
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Contributed equally to this work with: F. David Carmona, Jose-Ezequiel Martin
* E-mail: dcarmona@ipb.csic.es
Affiliation Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, CSIC, Granada, Spain
- Jose-Ezequiel Martin
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Contributed equally to this work with: F. David Carmona, Jose-Ezequiel Martin
Affiliation Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, CSIC, Granada, Spain
- Lorenzo Beretta
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Affiliation Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Carmen P. Simeón
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
- Patricia E. Carreira
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
- José Luis Callejas
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínico San Cecilio, Granada, Spain
- Mónica Fernández-Castro
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
- Luis Sáez-Comet
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain
- Emma Beltrán
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- María Teresa Camps
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
- María Victoria Egurbide
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital de Cruces, Barakaldo, Spain
- the Spanish Scleroderma Group
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¶Membership of the Spanish Scleroderma Group is provided in File S1.
- Paolo Airó
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Affiliation Servizio di Reumatologia ed Immunologia Clinica Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
- Raffaella Scorza
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Affiliation Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Claudio Lunardi
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy
- Nicolas Hunzelmann
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Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Gabriela Riemekasten
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
- Torsten Witte
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Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Alexander Kreuter
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Affiliation Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Jörg H. W. Distler
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 3, Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
- Rajan Madhok
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Affiliation Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Paul Shiels
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Affiliation Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Jacob M. van Laar
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Affiliation Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
- Carmen Fonseca
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Affiliation Centre for Rheumatology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom
- Christopher Denton
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Affiliation Centre for Rheumatology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom
- Ariane Herrick
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Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Jane Worthington
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Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Annemie J. Schuerwegh
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Madelon C. Vonk
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Alexandre E. Voskuyl
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Timothy R. D. J. Radstake
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Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Javier Martín
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Affiliation Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, CSIC, Granada, Spain
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Collection of data: LB CPS PEC JLC MFC LSC EB MTC MVE PA RS CL NH GR TW AK JHWD RM PS JML CF CD AH JW AJS MCV AEV TRDJR. Analysis and interpretation of data: FDC JEM JM LB CPS PEC JLC MFC LSC EB MTC MVE PA RS CL NH GR TW AK JHWD RM PS JML CF CD AH JW AJS MCV AEV TRDJR. Critical revision of the manuscript draft: JEM JM LB CPS PEC JLC MFC LSC EB MTC MVE PA RS CL NH GR TW AK JHWD RM PS JML CF CD AH JW AJS MCV AEV TRDJR. Conceived and designed the experiments: FDC JEM JM. Performed the experiments: FDC JEM. Analyzed the data: FDC JEM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB CPS PEC JLC MFC LSC EB MTC MVE PA RS CL NH GR TW AK JHWD RM PS JML CF CD AH JW AJS MCV AEV TRDJR. Wrote the paper: FDC.