Cole, Suzanne
Walsh, Alice
Yin, Xuefeng
Wechalekar, Mihir D.
Smith, Malcolm D.
Proudman, Susanna M.
Veale, Douglas J.
Fearon, Ursula
Pitzalis, Costantino
Humby, Frances
Bombardieri, Michele
Axel, Amy
Adams, Homer III
Chiu, Christopher
Sharp, Michael
Alvarez, John
Anderson, Ian
Madakamutil, Loui
Nagpal, Sunil
Guo, Yanxia
Article History
Received: 3 November 2017
Accepted: 26 March 2018
First Online: 2 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All protocols for collecting synovial biopsies and blood/serum were approved by Institutional Review Board Repatriation General Hospital and Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia), Adelaide Hospital, (Adelaide, Australia), Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), St. Vincent’s University Hospital (Dublin, Ireland), and Queen Mary University of London (London, UK). All patients signed the consent form for participating in the study.
: SC, AW, XY, JD, MS, CC, HA, AA, IA, LM, SN and YG are current or former employees of Janssen Research & Development, Johnson & Johnson. CP has received research grants and/or honoraria and/or consultation fees from Abbott/AbbVie, Astellas, Astra-Zeneca/MedImmune, BMS, Celgene, Grunenthal, GSK, Janssen/J&J, MSD, Pfizer, Sanofi, Roche/Genentech/Chugai and UCB. MDW, MDS, DJV and UF are recipients of Janssen collaboration research grants. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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