About the Authors

Yu Xue

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Xue, Li Jiang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Li Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Xue, Li Jiang

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Rheumatology, Linyi People's Hospital, Shandong, China

Qingqing Cheng

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Haiyan Chen

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yiyun Yu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yinda Lin

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xue Yang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ning Kong

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xiaoxia Zhu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xue Xu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Weiguo Wan

wgwan1969@sina.com (WW); hjzou@fudan.edu.cn (HZ)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Hejian Zou

wgwan1969@sina.com (WW); hjzou@fudan.edu.cn (HZ)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huashan Hospital, Institute of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX LJ WW HZ. Performed the experiments: YX LJ QC HC YY NK. Analyzed the data: YX LJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX LJ XX XZ XY YL. Wrote the paper: YX.