From the Departments of ∗Internal Medicine
†Rheumatology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
‡Scientific Affairs, EUROIMMUN US, Mountain Lakes, NJ
§Department of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
∥Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
¶Department of Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
I.V. and B.K. contributed equally to this study.
Author contributions: K.K.: study conception, analyzed the laboratory and chart data, cowrote the manuscript, final manuscript review, and approved the final version; R.G.: study conception, analyzed the laboratory and chart data, cowrote the manuscript, final manuscript review, and approved the final version; I.H.: study conception, final manuscript review, and approved the final version; A.E.: study conception, final manuscript review, and approved the final version; J.V.: study conception, final manuscript review, and approved the final version; M.H.: study conception, final manuscript review, and approved the final version; M.C., K.A., A.W., and M.N.: collected the laboratory and chart data and approved the final version; I.V.: study conception, analyzed the laboratory and chart data, final manuscript review, and approved the final version; B.K.: study conception, analyzed the laboratory and chart data, cowrote the manuscript, final manuscript review, and approved the final version.
This work was supported by EUROIMMUN US. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Each author declares that he/she has no relevant material interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication, with exception of the EUROIMMUN US team who are employees of EUROIMMUN US.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1863-5023
Correspondence: Karen Kruzer, MD, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY 14642. E-mail: [email protected].
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