About the Authors

Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Doenças Autoimunes, Serviço de Reumatologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Santa Cecília, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post Graduate Program in Medicine: Medical Sciences, Federal Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Joshua F. Baker

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Leonardo Peterson dos Santos

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

leonardosantos@hcpa.edu.br

Affiliations Laboratório de Doenças Autoimunes, Serviço de Reumatologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Santa Cecília, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post Graduate Program in Medicine: Medical Sciences, Federal Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Doenças Autoimunes, Serviço de Reumatologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Santa Cecília, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post Graduate Program in Medicine: Medical Sciences, Federal Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Lidiane Isabel Filippin

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universidade La Salle, Canoas, RS, Brazil

Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Doenças Autoimunes, Serviço de Reumatologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Santa Cecília, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post Graduate Program in Medicine: Medical Sciences, Federal Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Claiton Viegas Brenol

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Doenças Autoimunes, Serviço de Reumatologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Santa Cecília, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post Graduate Program in Medicine: Medical Sciences, Federal Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Doenças Autoimunes, Serviço de Reumatologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Santa Cecília, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post Graduate Program in Medicine: Medical Sciences, Federal Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Ricardo Machado Xavier

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaela Cavalheiro do Espírito Santo, Joshua F. Baker, Leonardo Peterson dos Santos, Jordana Miranda de Souza Silva, Lidiane Isabel Filippin, Juliana Katarina Schoer Portes, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Ricardo Machado Xavier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Doenças Autoimunes, Serviço de Reumatologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Santa Cecília, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Post Graduate Program in Medicine: Medical Sciences, Federal Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.