About the Authors

Joo Yeon Jhun

Contributed equally to this work with: Joo Yeon Jhun, Su-Jin Moon, Bo Young Yoon

Affiliations Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Rheumatism Research Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Su-Jin Moon

Contributed equally to this work with: Joo Yeon Jhun, Su-Jin Moon, Bo Young Yoon

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Bo Young Yoon

Contributed equally to this work with: Joo Yeon Jhun, Su-Jin Moon, Bo Young Yoon

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Inje University, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, South Korea

Jae Kyung Byun

Affiliations Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Rheumatism Research Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Eun Kyung Kim

Affiliations Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Rheumatism Research Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Eun Ji Yang

Affiliations Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Rheumatism Research Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Ji Hyeon Ju

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Yeon Sik Hong

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Jun Ki Min

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Sung Hwan Park

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Ho Youn Kim

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Mi-La Cho

iammila@catholic.ac.kr

Affiliations Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Rheumatism Research Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLC SJM. Performed the experiments: JYJ JKB EKK EJY. Analyzed the data: JYJ JKB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYJ. Wrote the paper: JYJ BYY SJM. Participated in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content: JHJ YSH JKM SHP HYK.