About the Authors
- Daniel Hain
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Affiliation Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Brian R. Bettencourt
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Affiliation Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Katsutomo Okamura
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Affiliation Sloan-Kettering Institute, Department of Developmental Biology, New York, New York, United States of America
- Tibor Csorba
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Current address: Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Godollo, Hungary
Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Wibke Meyer
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Current address: Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Joint Research Centre European Commission, Geel, Belgium
Affiliation Institut für Genetik, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Zhigang Jin
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Affiliation Sloan-Kettering Institute, Department of Developmental Biology, New York, New York, United States of America
- Jason Biggerstaff
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Affiliation Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Haruhiko Siomi
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Gyorgy Hutvagner
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Eric C. Lai
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Affiliation Sloan-Kettering Institute, Department of Developmental Biology, New York, New York, United States of America
- Michael Welte
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Welte, H.-Arno J. Müller
Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
- H.-Arno J. Müller
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Welte, H.-Arno J. Müller
* E-mail: h.j.muller@dundee.ac.uk
Affiliation Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Dr. Bettencourt's employment with Alnylam does not alter his adherence to the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in PLoS's guide for authors, http://www.plosone.org/static/policies.action#sharing.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DH BRB KO HS GH ECL MAW HAM. Performed the experiments: DH BRB KO TC WM ZJ JB MAW. Analyzed the data: DH BRB KO TC ZJ HS GH ECL MAW HAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BRB KO HS MAW HAM. Wrote the paper: BRB GH ECL MAW HAM.