About the Authors

Chaojun Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaojun Hu, Wei Huang, Hua Chen

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Wei Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaojun Hu, Wei Huang, Hua Chen

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hua Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaojun Hu, Wei Huang, Hua Chen

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Guang Song

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ping Li

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Qiang Shan

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Fengchun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Heng Zhu

yongzhelipumch@126.com (YZL); wul@big.ac.cn (LW); hzhu4@jhmi.edu (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lin Wu

yongzhelipumch@126.com (YZL); wul@big.ac.cn (LW); hzhu4@jhmi.edu (HZ)

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yongzhe Li

yongzhelipumch@126.com (YZL); wul@big.ac.cn (LW); hzhu4@jhmi.edu (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJH WH YZL LW HZ. Performed the experiments: WH CJH GS QS. Analyzed the data: WH LW CJH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC YZL HZ PL XZ FCZ. Wrote the paper: WH CJH LW HZ HC.