About the Authors

Fanlei Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fanlei Hu, Yingni Li

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Yingni Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Fanlei Hu, Yingni Li

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Li Zheng

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Lianjie Shi

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Hongjiang Liu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Xuewu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Huaqun Zhu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Sumei Tang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Lei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Liling Xu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Yuqin Yang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Zhanguo Li

li99@bjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FH ZL. Performed the experiments: FH YL. Analyzed the data: FH ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LiZ LS HL XZ HZ ST LZ LX YY. Wrote the paper: FH ZL.