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Expression profiling of immune cells in systemic lupus erythematosus by single-cell RNA sequencing

XIANLIANG HOU^1,2,3,#, DONGE TANG^1,#, FENGPING ZHENG^1,#, MINGLIN OU³, YONG XU¹, HUIXUAN XU¹, XIAOPING HONG⁴, XINZHOU ZHANG¹, WEIER DAI⁵, DONGZHOU LIU^4,*, YONG DAI^1,*

1 Clinical Medical Research Center, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Shenzhen, 518020, China
2 The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
3 Central Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin, 541199, China
4 Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Shenzhen, 518020, China
5 College of Natural Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 78712, USA

* Address correspondence to: Yong Dai, ; Dongzhou Liu,
# These authors contributed equally to this work