About the Authors

Rennie L. Rhee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rennie.rhee@uphs.upenn.edu

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cecile T. J. Holweg

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kit Wong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

David Cuthbertson

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Simon Carette

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nader A. Khalidi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Curry L. Koening

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Carol A. Langford

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunologic Disease, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Carol A. McAlear

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paul A. Monach

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Larry W. Moreland

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christian Pagnoux

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Philip Seo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ulrich Specks

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Antoine G. Sreih

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Steven R. Ytterberg

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Peter A. Merkel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology and the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

for the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium

Membership of the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

CTJH and KW are full-time employees of Genentech Inc. We confirm that CTJH and KW’s employment at Genentech, Inc does not alter our adherence to the journal’s policies on data sharing.