About the Authors
- Yi Pan
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Sam Norton
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Health Psychology section, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Inflammation Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
- James M. Gwinnutt
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Lianne Kearsley-Fleet
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Deborah P. M. Symmons
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Mark Lunt
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Adam Young
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre for Health Services & Clinical Research & Post Graduate Medicine, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, United Kingdom
- BSRBR-RA Control Centre Consortium
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¶Membership of BSRBR-RA Control Centre Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments
Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Kimme L. Hyrich
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Suzanne M. M. Verstappen
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Suzanne.Verstappen@manchester.ac.uk
Affiliations Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) receives funding from Abbvie, Celltrion, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Roche, Samsung Bioepis, Sandoz, Sanofi & UCB. These funds, in part, support a research grant awarded in open competition by the BSR to the University of Manchester. The authors declare no other competing interests. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.