bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.11.416180; this version posted December 15, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Profound Treg perturbations correlate with COVID-19 severity Silvia Galván-Peña1*, Juliette Leon1,2*, Kaitavjeet Chowdhary1, Daniel A. Michelson1, Brinda Vijaykumar1, Liang Yang1, Angela Magnuson1, Zachary Manickas-Hill3,4, Alicja Piechocka- Trocha3,4, Daniel P. Worrall3,4, Kathryn E. Hall3,5, Musie Ghebremichael3,4, Bruce D. Walker3,4,6, Jonathan Z. Li3,7, Xu G. Yu3,4, MGH COVID-19 Collection & Processing Team, Diane Mathis1 and Christophe Benoist1,8,+ 1Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2 INSERM UMR 1163, University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France 3Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA, USA 4Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA 5Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 6Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa. 7Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 8Lead contact * Equal contribution +Address correspondence to: Christophe Benoist Department of Immunology Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115 e-mail:
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