bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/144121; this version posted June 1, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder.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. Beyond autoantibodies: Biological roles of human autoreactive B cells in rheumatoid arthritis revealed by whole transcriptome profiling. Ankit Mahendra1, Xingyu Yang2, Shaza Abnouf1, Daechan Park3, Sanam Soomro4, Jay RT Adolacion1, Jason Roszik5, Cristian Coarfa6, Gabrielle Romain1, Keith Wanzeck7, S. Louis Bridges Jr.7, Amita Aggarwal8, Peng Qiu2, Sandeep Krishna Agarwal9, Chandra Mohan4, Navin Varadarajan1 Author affiliations 1. Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 3. Center for Theragnosis, Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea 4. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 5. Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 6. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 7. Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 8. Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India 9. Section of Immunology, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Address for correspondence: Dr. Navin Varadarajan (
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