Hwang, Mark C. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2160-1481
Lee, Min Jae http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4329-506X
Gensler, Lianne S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6314-5336
Ward, Michael M.
Brown, Matthew A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0538-8211
Eisen, Seth
Learch, Thomas J.
Tahanan, Amirali
Rahbar, Mohammad H.
Ishimori, Mariko L. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0421-8854
Weisman, Michael H. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5568-388X
Reveille, John D. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5950-0913
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (1KL2-TR-003168-01, UL1 TR003167 01)
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (P01-052915-06)
Spondylitis Association of America
Article History
Received: 25 November 2019
Accepted: 28 February 2020
First Online: 12 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare they have do not have any conflicts of interest relative to the content of this article. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH, SAA, or NCATS.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by each participants Institutional Review board (Protocol, Date): Princess Alexandria Hospital (2005/221 March 6th 2009) Cedars Sinai Medical Center (CR00004630 October 1<sup>t</sup>, 2010) National Institute of Health (03-AR-0131 March 3rd 2003), University of California San Francisco (H63075-35456-01 March 12th 2010), and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (HSC-MS-07-0022 Feb 8th, 2007).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.