About the Authors

Haruki Matsumoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Shuhei Yoshida

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Tomohiro Koga

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Division of Advanced Preventive Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Yuya Fujita

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Yuya Sumichika

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Kenji Saito

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Jumpei Temmoku

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Tomoyuki Asano

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Shuzo Sato

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Masashi Mizokami

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genome Medical Sciences Project, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan

Masaya Sugiyama

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Viral Pathogenesis and Controls, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan

Kiyoshi Migita

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

migita@fmu.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Rheumatology, St Francisco Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

No competing interests exist.