About the Authors
- Julia Greenfield
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Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft
Affiliations Department of Anatomy McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Marie Hudson
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: marie.hudson@mcgill.ca
Affiliations Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Division of Rheumatology Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Evelyne Vinet
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Division of Rheumatology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Paul R. Fortin
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Vivian Bykerk
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Christian A. Pineau
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Division of Rheumatology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Mianbo Wang
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Sasha Bernatsky
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Division of Rheumatology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Murray Baron
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Division of Rheumatology Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Canadian Scleroderma Research Group and Canadian Inflammatory Myopathy Study Group
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¶Membership of the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group and Canadian Inflammatory Myopathy Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
I and the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group have received unrestricted research and in-kind grants from Janssen Inc., INOVA Diagnostics Inc. (San Diego, CA), Dr. Fooke Laboratorien GmbH (Neuss, Germany), Euroimmun (Lubeck, Germany), Mikrogen GmbH (Neuried, Germany), Pfizer and Actelion. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.