About the Authors

Sourabh Chand

sourabh.chand@nhs.net

Affiliations Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Nephrology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Julia U. Holle

Affiliation Human Genetics, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

Marc Hilhorst

Affiliation Division of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Matthew J. Simmonds

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Stuart Smith

Affiliation Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Lavanya Kamesh

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Peter Hewins

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Amy Jayne McKnight

Affiliation Regional Nephrology Unit, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Alexander P. Maxwell

Affiliation Regional Nephrology Unit, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert

Affiliation Division of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Stefan Wieczorek

Affiliation Human Genetics, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

Lorraine Harper

Affiliation Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Richard Borrows

Affiliations Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Nephrology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC LH RB. Performed the experiments: SC JUH MH MS SS LK PH JWCT SW LH RB. Analyzed the data: SC JUH MH MS SS AJM APM LH RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC JUH MH MS JWCT SW LH RB. Wrote the manuscript: SC LH RB. Critical revision of manuscript: SC JUH MH MS SS LK PH AJM APM JWCT SW LH RB.