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Affiliations

• ¹ Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Rheumatology Department, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ² Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ³ Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.
• ⁴ AbbVie Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁵ UCB, Slough, UK.
• ⁶ Pfizer, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: gerd.burmester@charite.de.