About the Authors
- Virginia B. Kraus
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Contributed equally to this work with: Virginia B. Kraus, Thomas B. Kepler
* E-mail: vbk@acpub.duke.edu
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Thomas B. Kepler
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Contributed equally to this work with: Virginia B. Kraus, Thomas B. Kepler
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Thomas Stabler
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jordan Renner
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Affiliation Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Joanne Jordan
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Affiliation Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
This is an investigator initiated study funded by GlaxoSmithKline and the National Institutes of Health. The authors have no competing interests with respect to the commercial funder, including no employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products related to this work. The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VK JBR JMJ. Performed the experiments: TS JBR. Analyzed the data: TBK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VK TBK JMJ. Wrote the paper: VK TBK. Supervised performance of the experiments: VK. Reviewed the paper: TS JBR JMJ.