About the Authors

Vinay K. Kartha

Contributed equally to this work with: Vinay K. Kartha, Lukasz Stawski

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lukasz Stawski

Contributed equally to this work with: Vinay K. Kartha, Lukasz Stawski

Affiliation Arthritis Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rong Han

Affiliation Arthritis Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Haines

Affiliation Arthritis Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

George Gallagher

Affiliation Division of Oral Pathology, Boston University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vikki Noonan

Affiliation Division of Oral Pathology, Boston University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maria Kukuruzinska

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stefano Monti

trojanme@bu.edu (MT); smonti@bu.edu (SM)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maria Trojanowska

trojanme@bu.edu (MT); smonti@bu.edu (SM)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Arthritis Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM MT MK VKK LS RH. Performed the experiments: LS RH PH. Analyzed the data: VKK LS PH GG VN SM MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT SM MK GG VN. Wrote the paper: VKK LS MK SM MT.