Heeseog Kang1, Smita Jha2,3, Zuoming Deng4, Nadja Fratzl-Zelman5, Wayne A. Cabral1,10, Aleksandra Ivovic6, Francoise Meylan6, Eric P. Hanson7, Eileen Lange8, James Katz8, Paul Roschger5, Klaus Klaushofer5, Edward W. Cowen9, Richard M. Siegel6, Joan C. Marini1 & Timothy Bhattacharyya2
1 Section on Heritable Disorders of Bone and Extracellular Matrix, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. 2 Clinical and Investigative Orthopedics Surgery Unit, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. 3 Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. 4 Biodata Mining and Discovery Section, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. 5 Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK and AUVA Trauma Center Meidling, 1st Medical Department Hanusch Hospital, UKH Meidling, Kundratstr. 37, Vienna 1120, Austria. 6 Immunoregulation Section, Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. 7 Immunodeficiency and Inflammation Unit, Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda 20892, USA. 8 Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. 9Dermatology Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. 10Present address: Molecular Genetics Section, Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
These authors contributed equally: Heeseog Kang, Smita Jha, Zuoming Deng.
These authors jointly supervised this work: Richard M. Siegel, Joan C. Marini, Timothy Bhattacharyya.
Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to T.B.