About the Authors

Hae-Rim Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hae-Rim Kim, Kyoung-Woon Kim

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Research Institute of Medical Science, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Kyoung-Woon Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hae-Rim Kim, Kyoung-Woon Kim

Affiliations Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Bo-Mi Kim

Affiliations Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Mi-La Cho

shlee@kuh.ac.kr (SHL); iammila@catholic.ac.kr (MLC)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Sang-Heon Lee

shlee@kuh.ac.kr (SHL); iammila@catholic.ac.kr (MLC)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Research Institute of Medical Science, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HRK KWK. Performed the experiments: KWK BMK. Analyzed the data: KWK BMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMK. Wrote the paper: HRK KWK MLC SHL. Assisted in designing the study: BMK.