Plasmacytoid dendritic cells and RNA-containing immune complexes drive expansion of peripheral B cell subsets with an SLE-like phenotype

• Olof Berggren,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Rheumatology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Niklas Hagberg,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Rheumatology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Andrei Alexsson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Rheumatology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Gert Weber,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Institute of Biochemistry, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Lars Rönnblom,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Rheumatology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Maija-Leena Eloranta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maija-leena.eloranta@medsci.uu.se

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Rheumatology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-1351

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