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Fedorchenko, Vladyslav
Huang, Kaiyue
Demmler, Richard
Rhein, Peter
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Sticherling, Michael
Bäuerle, Tobias
Distler, Jörg H. W.
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Distler, Oliver
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D’Agostino, Maria A.
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Article History
Received: 29 August 2024
Accepted: 20 October 2025
First Online: 2 January 2026
Competing interests
: P.R. is employed by Cytek Biosciences, the maker of the Amnis brand ImageStream, which was used in this study. O.D. declares consultancy relationships with and/or has received research funding from and/or has served as a speaker for the following companies in the area of rheumatology in the past three calendar years: 4P-Pharma, Abbvie, Acepodia, Aera, AnaMar, Anaveon, Argenx, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, BMS, Calluna, Cantargia, CSL Behring, EMD Serono, Galderma, Galapagos, Gossamer, Hemetron, Innovaderm, Janssen, Lilly, MSD Merck, Nkarta, Novartis, Oorja Bio, Orion, Pilan, Prometheus, Quell, Redxpharma, Scleroderma Research Foundation, Sumitomo, Topadur, UCB and Umlaut bio. O.D. has a patent ‘mir-29 for the treatment of systemic sclerosis’ (US8247389, EP2331143) and is cofounder of CITUS. The other authors declare no competing interests.