Kenji Saito: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole:
SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Shuhei Yoshida: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Honoka Ebina: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Masayuki Miyata: Role: Data curationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Eiji Suzuki: Role: Data curationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Takashi Kanno: Role: Data curationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Yuya Sumichika: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Haruki Matsumoto: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Jumpei Temmoku: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Yuya Fujita: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Naoki Matsuoka: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Tomoyuki Asano: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Shuzo Sato: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Kiyoshi Migita:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1339-5622
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Masataka Kuwana: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLOS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
11
July
2024
Publication date Collection: 2024
Volume: 19
Issue: 7
Electronic Location Identifier: e0306714
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima,
Japan
[2
]
Department of Rheumatology, Japanese Red Cross Fukushima Hospital, Fukushima, Japan
[3
]
Department of Rheumatology, Ohta Nishinouchi General Hospital Foundation, Koriyama,
Fukushima, Japan
[4
]
Department of Rheumatology, St. Francis Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan
Nippon Medical School, JAPAN
Author notes
Competing Interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following
competing interests: K.M. has received research grants from Chugai Pharmaceutical
Co., Ltd. and Novartis Pharma K.K. The above-mentioned pharmaceutical companies were
not involved in the study design, data collection and analysis, manuscript writing,
and manuscript submission. Rest of the authors declare that they have no conflict
of interests.
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Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-24-09250
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0306714
PMC ID: 11239012
PubMed ID: 38990897
SO-VID: 6428bec1-cad0-492e-88aa-6100da3537ab
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License:
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Funded by:
Japan Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Award ID: 20K08777
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1339-5622
Kiyoshi Migita
The study was supported by the Japan Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (20K08777).
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Rheumatology
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Arthritis
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Clinical Medicine
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Autoimmune Diseases
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Rheumatoid Arthritis
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