Associations of upper respiratory mucosa microbiota with Rheumatoid arthritis, autoantibodies, and disease activity

• Young Bin Joo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Young Bin Joo, Juho Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Republic of Korea, Hanyang University Institute for Rheumatology Research, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Juho Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Young Bin Joo, Juho Lee

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0705-4462

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• Yune-Jung Park,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, St. Vincent’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• So-Young Bang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Republic of Korea, Hanyang University Institute for Rheumatology Research, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4699-9350

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• Kwangwoo Kim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kkim@khu.ac.kr (KK); lhsberon@hanyang.ac.kr (HSL)

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8926-6216

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• Hye-Soon Lee

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kkim@khu.ac.kr (KK); lhsberon@hanyang.ac.kr (HSL)

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Republic of Korea, Hanyang University Institute for Rheumatology Research, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8535-0442

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