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Edited by Denis Duboule, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, and approved December 1, 2016 (received for review September 19, 2016)
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- Granton A. Jindala,b,c,1,
- Yogesh Goyala,b,1,
- Kei Yamayab,c,
- Alan S. Futrana,b,
- Iason Kountouridisb,
- Courtney A. Balgobinc,
- Trudi Schüpbachc,
- Rebecca D. Burdinec, and
- Stanislav Y. Shvartsmana,b,c,2
- aDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;
- bLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;
- cDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
Edited by Denis Duboule, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, and approved December 1, 2016 (received for review September 19, 2016)
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↵1G.A.J. and Y.G. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: stas{at}princeton.edu.
Author contributions: G.A.J., Y.G., T.S., R.D.B., and S.Y.S. designed research; G.A.J., Y.G., K.Y., I.K., and C.A.B. performed research; A.S.F. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; G.A.J., Y.G., and K.Y. analyzed data; and G.A.J., Y.G., T.S., R.D.B., and S.Y.S. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1615651114/-/DCSupplemental.
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