Immunochip analysis identifies multiple susceptibility loci for systemic sclerosis

Affiliations

• ¹ The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada 18016, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ³ Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
• ⁴ Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada 18016, Spain.
• ⁵ The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
• ⁶ Centre for Rheumatology, University College London Medical School, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
• ⁷ The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.
• ⁹ Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Valle de Hebrón, Barcelona 08035, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona 08025, Spain.
• ¹¹ Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Instituto de Formación e Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander 39008, Spain.
• ¹² Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700, the Netherlands.
• ¹³ Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁴ Área de Variabilidad del ADN Humano, Centro Pfizer - Universidad de Granada - Junta de Andalucía de Genómica e Investigación Oncológica, Granada 18016, Spain; Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
• ¹⁵ University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
• ¹⁶ Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan 20122, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin 10117, Germany.
• ¹⁸ Department of Clinical Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne, Cologne 50924, Germany.
• ²⁰ Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Allergology, HELIOS St. Elisabeth Hospital, Oberhausen 46045, Germany.
• ²¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen 91054, Germany.
• ²² Department of Rheumatology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1081 HV, the Netherlands.
• ²³ Department of Rheumatology and Pathology and Central Medical Immunology Laboratory, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands.
• ²⁴ Department of Rheumatology, Lund University, Lund 221 85, Sweden.
• ²⁵ Servizio di Reumatologia ed Immunologia Clinica Spedali Civili, Brescia 25123, Italy.
• ²⁶ Department of Medicine, Universita degli Studi di Verona, Verona 37134, Italy.
• ²⁷ Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK.
• ²⁸ Musculoskeletal Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.
• ²⁹ Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.
• ³⁰ Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
• ³¹ Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
• ³² Department of Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada.
• ³³ Division of Rheumatology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 4V2, Canada.
• ³⁴ Division of Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1670, USA.
• ³⁵ Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
• ³⁶ Division of Rheumatology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
• ³⁷ Division of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
• ³⁸ Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
• ³⁹ Division of Rheumatology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA.
• ⁴⁰ Division of Rheumatology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
• ⁴¹ Division of Rheumatology, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-3408, USA.
• ⁴² Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132-2101, USA.
• ⁴³ Department of Rheumatology, Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, NC 28211, USA.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Rheumatology, The Moncton Hospital, Moncton, NB E1C 6Z8, Canada.
• ⁴⁵ Rheumatology Section, Department of Medicine, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB T2N 2T9, Canada.
• ⁴⁶ Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8N 1Y2, Canada.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Rheumatology, University of Edmonton, Edmonton, AB T5M 0H4, Canada.
• ⁴⁸ Department of Rheumatology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7K 0H6, Canada.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Rheumatology, Arthritis Center, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3A 1M4, Canada.
• ⁵⁰ Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen 6500 HC, the Netherlands; Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht 3584 CX, the Netherlands.
• ⁵¹ Complex Genetics Section, Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht 3584 CX, the Netherlands.