About the Authors

Kelly J. Shields

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Kelly.SHIELDS@ahn.org

Affiliation Lupus Center of Excellence, Autoimmunity Institute, Department of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tom Eirik Mollnes

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital, and K.G. Jebsen IRC, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Research Laboratory, Nordland Hospital, Bodø, and Faculty of Health Sciences, K.G. Jebsen TREC, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Jon Roger Eidet

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Knut Mikkelsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway

Sven M. Almdahl

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Barbara Bottazzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliation Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Italy

Torstein Lyberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Susan Manzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliation Lupus Center of Excellence, Autoimmunity Institute, Department of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph M. Ahearn

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliation Lupus Center of Excellence, Autoimmunity Institute, Department of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ivana Hollan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly J. Shields, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Jon Roger Eidet, Knut Mikkelsen, Sven M. Almdahl, Barbara Bottazzi, Torstein Lyberg, Susan Manzi, Joseph M. Ahearn, Ivana Hollan

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway, Research Department, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Brumunddal, Norway, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TEM KM SMA BB SM JMA IH. Data curation: IH. Formal analysis: KJS IH. Funding acquisition: TEM KM SMA TL BB IH JRE. Investigation: KJS TEM KM SMA TL BB SM JMA IH JRE. Methodology: KJS TEM KM SMA TL BB SM JMA IH JRE. Project administration: KJS IH. Supervision: IH. Validation: KJS TEM KM SMA TL BB SM JMA IH JRE. Visualization: KJS JMA IH. Writing – original draft: KJS IH. Writing – review & editing: KJS TEM KM SMA TL BB SM JMA IH JRE.