About the Authors

Xiaohui Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohui Zhou, Zanxian Xia

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zanxian Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohui Zhou, Zanxian Xia

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Qin Lan

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Julie Wang

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wenru Su

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guanzhou, China

Yuan-Ping Han

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Huimin Fan

Affiliation Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhongmin Liu

Affiliation Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

William Stohl

szheng@usc.edu (SGZ); stohl@usc.edu (WS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Song Guo Zheng

szheng@usc.edu (SGZ); stohl@usc.edu (WS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGZ WS. Performed the experiments: XHZ ZX QL JW WS YPH HMF. Analyzed the data: SGZ WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZML. Wrote the paper: SGZ WS.