About the Authors

Margaret Veselits

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine and Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunological Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Azusa Tanaka

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine and Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunological Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stanley Lipkowitz

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shannon O'Neill

Affiliation Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Roger Sciammas

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine and Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunological Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alison Finnegan

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, and Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jian Zhang

Affiliation Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Marcus R. Clark

mclark@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine and Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunological Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRC. Performed the experiments: MV AT SO. Analyzed the data: MV AF MRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL RS JZ. Wrote the paper: MRC.