About the Authors
- Emeli Lundström
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* E-mail: emeli.lundstrom@ki.se
Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Toinette Hartshorne
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Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Kelly Li
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Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Staffan Lindblad
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Marius C. Wick
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Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Camilla Bengtsson
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Affiliation Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lars Alfredsson
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Affiliation Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lars Klareskog
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Leonid Padyukov
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Competing Interests
Applied Biosystems (AB) provided reagents for genotyping of GSTM1 for this study. Toinette Hartshorne and Kelly Li are employed by AB. Neither AB nor any of its employees had a role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish. Toinette Hartshorne and Kelly Li were involved in preparation of the manuscripts and are co-authors for this paper. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EL LK LP. Performed the experiments: EL CB MCW SL. Analyzed the data: EL CB LA LK LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL CB LA LK SL MCW KL TH LP. Wrote the paper: EL CB MCW TH KL LA LK LP.