About the Authors

Shinjiro Kaieda

Contributed equally to this work with: Shinjiro Kaieda, Jun-Xia Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jun-Xia Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shinjiro Kaieda, Jun-Xia Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ruslan Shnayder

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nadia Fishgal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hillary Hei

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard T. Lee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard L. Stevens

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter A. Nigrovic

pnigrovic@partners.org

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK JXW PAN. Performed the experiments: SK JXW RS NF HH PAN. Analyzed the data: SK JXW RLS PAN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RTL. Wrote the paper: SK JXW PAN.