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From: Identification of differential co-expressed gene networks in early rheumatoid arthritis achieving sustained drug-free remission after treatment with a tocilizumab-based or methotrexate-based strategy

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A Flowchart of the study. Whole blood samples were collected from 60 patients and thereafter CD4+ and CD14+ cells were extracted using fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). Then RNA was isolated from these cells and, via reverse transcription, the library was prepared and sequenced (RNA-seq). Thereafter, a (standard) pipeline was applied for quality control and processing of the reads; read counts were used for detecting differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and these were then used for detecting networks of co-expressed genes. Pathway analyses in the Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) databases were performed in the most important networks

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Arthritis Research & Therapy

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