About the Authors

Raphael Borie

Affiliations Service de Pneumologie A, APHP, Hopital Bichat, Paris, France, INSERM, Unité 700, Faculté Bichat, Université Paris 7, Paris, France

Bruno Crestani

bruno.crestani@bch.aphp.fr

Affiliations Service de Pneumologie A, APHP, Hopital Bichat, Paris, France, INSERM, Unité 700, Faculté Bichat, Université Paris 7, Paris, France, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France

Philippe Dieude

Affiliations Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France, Service de Rhumatologie, APHP, Hopital Bichat, Paris, France

Hilario Nunes

Affiliation Service de Pneumologie, APHP, Hopital Avicenne, Bobigny, France

Yannick Allanore

Affiliation Service de Rhumatologie, APHP, Hopital Cochin, Paris, France

Caroline Kannengiesser

Affiliations Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France, Service de Génétique, APHP, Hopital Bichat, Paris, France

Paolo Airo

Affiliation Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy

Marco Matucci-Cerinic

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, Section of Rheumatology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Benoit Wallaert

Affiliation Service de Pneumologie, CHRU de Lille, Lille, France

Dominique Israel-Biet

Affiliation Service de Pneumologie, Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Jacques Cadranel

Affiliation Service de Pneumologie, Hopital Tenon, Paris, France

Vincent Cottin

Affiliation Service de Pneumologie, Hopital Louis Pradel, Lyon, France

Steven Gazal

Affiliation Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille III, Groupe de Recherches 'Modélisation Appliquée à la Recherche en Sciences Sociales (GREMARS), Lille, France

Anna L. Peljto

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

John Varga

Affiliation Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David A. Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Dominique Valeyre

Affiliation Service de Pneumologie, APHP, Hopital Avicenne, Bobigny, France

Bernard Grandchamp

Affiliations Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France, Service de Génétique, APHP, Hopital Bichat, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB BC PD YA CK DAS BG. Performed the experiments: RB BC PD YA CK AP JV DAS BG. Analyzed the data: RB BC PD SG AP JV DAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB BC PD HN YA CK PA MMC BW DIB JC VC DAS DV BG. Wrote the paper: RB BC PD CK DAS BG.