Pappas, Dimitrios A.
Blachley, Taylor
Best, Jennie H.
Zlotnick, Steve
Reiss, William G.
Emeanuru, Kelechi
Kremer, Joel M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Genentech
Article History
Received: 25 November 2020
Accepted: 23 January 2021
First Online: 25 February 2021
Medical Writing Assistance
: Support for third-party writing assistance, provided by Claire Stedden, PhD, of Health Interactions, Inc, was provided by Genentech, Inc.
: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this article, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given their approval for this version to be published.
: A portion of this work was presented at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) E-Congress of Rheumatology, June 2020.
: Dimitrios A. Pappas is an employee and shareholder of Corrona, LLC, and a consultant for Regeneron, Novartis, and Roche. Taylor Blachley and Kelechi Emeanuru are employees of Corrona, LLC. Jennie H. Best and William G. Reiss are employees and shareholders of Genentech, Inc. Steve Zlotnick was an employee of Genentech, Inc., at the time of this study and is shareholder of Genentech, Inc. Joel M. Kremer is president of the Corrona Research Foundation, founder of Corrona, LLC, and a consultant for AbbVie, Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Genentech, Gilead, GSK, Lilly, Pfizer, Regeneron, and Sanofi. Article processing charges were funded by Genentech, Inc.
: Ethics approvals for this study were obtained from a central institutional review board (IRB; New England Independent Review Board 120160610). For academic investigative sites that did not receive a waiver to use the central IRB, full board approval was obtained from the respective governing IRBs, and documentation of approval was submitted to the sponsor prior to initiating any study procedures. 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. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The data sets generated and analyzed during the current study are not publicly available because of proprietary rights but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.