About the Authors
- Elisa Alonso-Perez
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigacion 10 and Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria - Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Marian Suarez-Gestal
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigacion 10 and Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria - Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Manuel Calaza
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigacion 10 and Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria - Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Josep Ordi-Ros
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Affiliation Internal Medicine, Research Laboratory in Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
- Eva Balada
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Affiliation Internal Medicine, Research Laboratory in Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
- Marc Bijl
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Chryssa Papasteriades
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Affiliation Department of Histocompatibility and Immunology, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
- Patricia Carreira
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Affiliation Rheumatology Department, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
- Fotini N. Skopouli
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Affiliation Pathophysiology Department, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece
- Torsten Witte
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine of the Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Emöke Endreffy
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Affiliation Paediatrics Department, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
- Maurizio Marchini
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Affiliation Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico and University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Sergio Migliaresi
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Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Gian Domenico Sebastiani
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Affiliation UOC Reumatologia, Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini, Roma, Italy
- Maria Jose Santos
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Affiliation Rheumatology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta and Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, Portugal
- Ana Suarez
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Affiliation Department of Functional Biology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Francisco J. Blanco
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Affiliation INIBIC-CH Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
- Nadia Barizzone
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Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences and IRCAD, Eastern Piedmont University, Novara, Italy
- Rudolf Pullmann
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, Martin Faculty Hospital, Jessenius Medical Faculty, Martin, Slovakia
- Sarka Ruzickova
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Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
- Bernard R. Lauwerys
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Affiliation Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
- Juan J. Gomez-Reino
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Affiliations Laboratorio de Investigacion 10 and Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria - Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Department of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Antonio Gonzalez
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* E-mail: Antonio.Gonzalez.Martinez-Pedrayo@sergas.es
Other contributors to the European Consortium of SLE DNA Collections are provided in the Acknowledgments.
Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigacion 10 and Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria - Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EA-P MS-G AG. Performed the experiments: EA-P MS-G AG. Analyzed the data: EA-P MS-G MC JO-R EB MB CP PC FNS TW EE MM SM GDS MJS AS FJB NB RP SR BRL JJG-R AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JO-R EB MB CP PC FNS TW EE MM SM GDS MJS AS FJB NB RP SR BRL JJG-R. Wrote the paper: EA-P MS-G AG.