Plasma proteomic profiling suggests an association between antigen driven clonal B cell expansion and ME/CFS

• Milica Milivojevic ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milica Milivojevic, Xiaoyu Che

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Xiaoyu Che ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milica Milivojevic, Xiaoyu Che

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Lucinda Bateman,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Bateman Horne Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

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• Aaron Cheng,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7924-075X

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• Benjamin A. Garcia,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Mady Hornig,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7572-3092

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• Manuel Huber,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute for Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-922X

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• Nancy G. Klimas,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Institute for Neuro Immune Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States of America, Miami VA Medical Center, Miami, FL, United States of America

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• Bohyun Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Hyoungjoo Lee,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Susan Levine,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Levine Clinic, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Jose G. Montoya,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Jack S. Remington Laboratory for Specialty Diagnostics of Toxoplasmosis, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3378-8071

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• Daniel L. Peterson,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Sierra Internal Medicine at Incline Village, Incline Village, NV, United States of America

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• Anthony L. Komaroff,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• W. Ian Lipkin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wil2001@cumc.columbia.edu

  Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8768-9386

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