About the Authors

Susanne Lindquist

Contributed equally to this work with: Susanne Lindquist, Yuhang Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

susanne.lindquist@lipum.se

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Lipum AB, Umeå, Sweden

Yuhang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Susanne Lindquist, Yuhang Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa, IA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Eva-Lotta Andersson

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Lipum AB, Umeå, Sweden

Shizuko Tsuji Grebe

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Gerd-Marie Alenius

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Lennart Lundberg

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lipum AB, Umeå, Sweden

Olle Hernell

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Lipum AB, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

SL, LL and OH are scientific co-founders of Lipum, a biopharmaceutical company focused on novel treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. They hold shares and have rights to intellectual property of the company (WO/2010/117325, New methods for treatment of inflammatory diseases; WO/2021/010888, Novel BSSL antibodies). SL is employed CSO of Lipum. OH serves on Lipum’s board of directors, LL and SRD serves on Lipum’s scientific advisory board. They report remuneration from Lipum. ELA is employed and holds shares in Lipum. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. YW, STG and GMA has no competing interest to declare.