About the Authors

Xu Shi-wen

Affiliation Centre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University College London (Royal Free Campus), London, United Kingdom

Shangxi Liu

Affiliation The Canadian Institute of Health Research Group in Skeletal Development and Remodeling, Division of Oral Biology and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Mark Eastwood

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Sonali Sonnylal

Affiliation University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christopher P. Denton

Affiliation Centre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University College London (Royal Free Campus), London, United Kingdom

David J. Abraham

Contributed equally to this work with: David J. Abraham, Andrew Leask

Affiliation Centre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University College London (Royal Free Campus), London, United Kingdom

Andrew Leask

Contributed equally to this work with: David J. Abraham, Andrew Leask

Andrew.leask@schulich.uwo.ca

Affiliation The Canadian Institute of Health Research Group in Skeletal Development and Remodeling, Division of Oral Biology and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XS CD DA AL. Performed the experiments: XS. Analyzed the data: XS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL ME. Wrote the paper: XS SL ME SS CD DA AL.