About the Authors
- Rishi R. Rampersad
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Teresa K. Tarrant
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Christopher T. Vallanat
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Tatiana Quintero-Matthews
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Michael F. Weeks
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Denise A. Esserman
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Affiliations Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jennifer Clark
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Franco Di Padova
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Dhavalkumar D. Patel
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Alan M. Fong
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Peng Liu
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* E-mail: liupz@med.unc.edu
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
Drs. Patel, DD and Di Padova, F are employees of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. All other authors report no potential conflicts. 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: PL. Performed the experiments: PL RRR CTV TQ MFW. Analyzed the data: PL RRR TKT DAE DDP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PL AMF DDP FDP DAE JC. Wrote the paper: PL RRR.