About the Authors
- Maria I. Zervou
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Human Genetics, Medical School of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Efsevia Myrthianou
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Human Genetics, Medical School of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Irene Flouri
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Medical School of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Darren Plant
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Affiliation NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester Academy of Health Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Gregory Chlouverakis
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Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Francesc Castro-Giner
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Affiliation Molecular and Population Genetics Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Panayiota Rapsomaniki
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Medical School of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Anne Barton
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Affiliations NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester Academy of Health Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom, Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Dimitrios T. Boumpas
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Affiliations Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation of Research and Technology–Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
- Prodromos Sidiropoulos
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Contributed equally to this work with: Prodromos Sidiropoulos, George N. Goulielmos
Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Medical School of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- George N. Goulielmos
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Contributed equally to this work with: Prodromos Sidiropoulos, George N. Goulielmos
* E-mail: goulielmos@med.uoc.gr
Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Human Genetics, Medical School of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GNG DP AB IF. Performed the experiments: MIZ EM IF PS PR DP. Analyzed the data: GNG MIZ DP GC PS DTB FCG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS DTB GNG PR AB FCG. Wrote the manuscript: GNG DP MIZ AB GC DTB FCG.