About the Authors

Liubing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Liubing Li, Chuiwen Deng, Si 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

Chuiwen Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Liubing Li, Chuiwen Deng, Si 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

Si Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Liubing Li, Chuiwen Deng, Si Chen

Affiliations 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, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Shulan 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

Ziyan Wu

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

Chaojun Hu

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

Yongzhe Li

yongzhelipumch@126.com

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: LBL FCZ YZL. Performed the experiments: LBL CWD SC. Analyzed the data: LBL CWD SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLZ ZYW CJH. Wrote the paper: LBL CWD SC.