Author contributions:
Ping Zhao:Data curation, Writing original draft, Writing
review & editing. Cuiping Liu, and Jian Wu designed the study and
provided resources and fundings.Ping Zhao, YanHong Yang and Saizhe Song
conducted the experiment, performed data analysis, and wrote the
manuscript. Wei Cheng, Cheng Peng, and Xin Chang participated in the
sample and clinical data collection. Jian Wu and Cuiping Liu helped
optimize the research and proofread the paper and revised the
manuscript. All authors helped the final approval of the version.
Acknowledgements: We sincerely thank the platform provided by
Jiangsu Institute of Clinical Immunology & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of
Clinical Immunology. We are grateful for the help provided by all
department of rheumatology in the First Afffliated Hospital of Soochow
University.
Data Availability Statement: The data sets generated during
and/or analysed during the current study are available from the
corresponding author on reasonable request.