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We downloaded the PBMC’ 10X scRNA-seq matrix data of 43 SLE patients (33 cSLE and 10 aSLE patients) and 18 health donors (11 cHD and 7 aHD) from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database under the accession number GSE135779 and GSE142016 [Citation14,Citation17].