Hargreaves, Patrick
Daoudlarian, Douglas
Theron, Michel
Kolb, Fabrice A.
Manchester Young, Marianne
Reis, Bernhard
Tiaden, Andre
Bannert, Bettina
Kyburz, Diego
Manigold, Tobias
Funding for this research was provided by:
F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Article History
Received: 21 February 2019
Accepted: 28 June 2019
First Online: 18 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All patients and healthy controls gave written consent upon enrolment. The protocol for specimen acquisition (26th of May 2014) was approved by the “Ethikkomission Nordwest- und Zentralschweiz” under reference number EKNZ 2014-051.
: All personal data of enrolled subjects were anonymised.
: PH, MT, FK, MMY and BR are all current employees of Hoffmann-La Roche. At the time of the study, PH was employed by the Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. AT, BB, DK and TM declare that they have no competing interests.