About the Authors
- Bahram Namjou
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bahram Namjou, Xana Kim-Howard, Celi Sun
Affiliations Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Xana Kim-Howard
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bahram Namjou, Xana Kim-Howard, Celi Sun
Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Celi Sun
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bahram Namjou, Xana Kim-Howard, Celi Sun
Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Adam Adler
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Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Sharon A. Chung
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Affiliation Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Kenneth M. Kaufman
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Affiliations Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Jennifer A. Kelly
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Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Stuart B. Glenn
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Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Joel M. Guthridge
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Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Robert H. Scofield
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Affiliations Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Robert P. Kimberly
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Elizabeth E. Brown
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Graciela S. Alarcón
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Jeffrey C. Edberg
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Jae-Hoon Kim
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea
- Jiyoung Choi
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea
- Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Michelle A. Petri
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- John D. Reveille
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Luis M. Vilá
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Susan A. Boackle
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Barry I. Freedman
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Affiliation Center for Public Health Genomics and Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States of America
- Betty P. Tsao
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Carl D. Langefeld
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States of America
- Timothy J. Vyse
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Affiliation Divisions of Genetics and Molecular Medicine and Immunology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Chaim O. Jacob
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Bernardo Pons-Estel
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Sanatorio Parque, Rosario, Argentina
- on behalf of the Argentine Collaborative Group
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¶Membership of the Argentine Collaborative Group and the BIOLUPUS and GENLES networks is provided in the Acknowledgments.
- Timothy B. Niewold
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology and Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Kathy L. Moser Sivils
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Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Joan T. Merrill
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Juan-Manuel Anaya
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Affiliation Center for Autoimmune Diseases Research, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
- Gary S. Gilkeson
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Patrick M. Gaffney
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Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Sang-Cheol Bae
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea
- Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme
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Affiliations Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Centro de Genómica e Investigación Oncológica (GENYO) Pfizer-Universidad de Granada-Junta de Andalucía, Granada, Spain
- on behalf of the BIOLUPUS and GENLES networks
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¶Membership of the Argentine Collaborative Group and the BIOLUPUS and GENLES networks is provided in the Acknowledgments.
- John B. Harley
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Affiliations Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Lindsey A. Criswell
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Affiliation Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Judith A. James
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Affiliations Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Swapan K. Nath
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* E-mail: Swapan-nath@omrf.org
Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SKN. Performed the experiments: KMK AA. Analyzed the data: BN XKH CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAC JAK SBG JMG RHS RPK EEB GSA JCE JHK JC RR MAP JDR LMV SAB BIF BPT CDL TJV COJ BP TBN KLM JTM JMA GSG PMG SCB MA JBH LAC JAJ. Wrote the paper: BN XKH CS SAC JAJ SKN.