About the Authors

Evelyn Pau

Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn Pau, Yui-Ho Cheung

Affiliations Arthritis Centre of Excellence, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Yui-Ho Cheung

Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn Pau, Yui-Ho Cheung

Affiliations Arthritis Centre of Excellence, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christina Loh

Affiliations Arthritis Centre of Excellence, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ginette Lajoie

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai Hospital and William Osler Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joan E. Wither

jwither@uhnres.utoronto.ca

Affiliations Arthritis Centre of Excellence, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EP YHC JW. Performed the experiments: EP YHC CL GL. Analyzed the data: EP YHC CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Wrote the paper: EP YHC JW.