About the Authors

Xiaoxia Zhu

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China

Qiong Liu

Affiliations Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China, Department of Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Meimei Wang

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Dongnan University, Zhongda Hospital, Nanjing, China

Minrui Liang

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China

Xue Yang

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China

Xue Xu

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China

Hejian Zou

Contributed equally to this work with: Hejian Zou, Jianhua Qiu

jqiu@partners.org (JQ); hjzou@fudan.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China

Jianhua Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hejian Zou, Jianhua Qiu

jqiu@partners.org (JQ); hjzou@fudan.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ JQ. Performed the experiments: XZ QL. Analyzed the data: XZ MW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ ML XY XX. Wrote the paper: XZ HZ JQ.