Single cell RNA sequencing to dissect the molecular heterogeneity in lupus nephritis

JCI Insight

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Der, Evan ^a   Ranabothu, Saritha ^a   Suryawanshi, Hemant ^b   Akat, Kemal M ^b   Clancy, Robert ^c   Morozov, Pavel ^b   Kustagi, Manjunath ^b   Czuppa, Mareike ^b   Izmirly, Peter ^c   Belmont, H Michael ^c   Wang, Tao ^a   Jordan, Nicole ^a   Bornkamp, Nicole ^c   Nwaukoni, Janet ^c   Martinez, July ^a   Goilav, Beatrice ^a   Buyon, Jill P ^c   Tuschl, Thomas ^b   Putterman, Chaim ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 85062406293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23793708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.93009     Document Type: Article

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