Differential aging of growth plate cartilage underlies differences in bone length and thus helps determine skeletal proportions

Julian C. Lui; Youn Hee Jee; Presley Garrison; James R. Iben; Shanna Yue; Michal Ad; Quang Nguyen; Bijal Kikani; Yoshiyuki Wakabayashi; Jeffrey Baron

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2005263

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Differential aging of growth plate cartilage underlies differences in bone length and thus helps determine skeletal proportions

Julian C. Lui ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: luichunk@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0611-4901

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Youn Hee Jee,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Presley Garrison,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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James R. Iben,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Molecular Genomics Core, Office of the Scientific Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Shanna Yue,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Michal Ad,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Quang Nguyen,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Bijal Kikani,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Yoshiyuki Wakabayashi,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation DNA Sequencing and Genomics Core, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Jeffrey Baron

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Differential aging of growth plate cartilage underlies differences in bone length and thus helps determine skeletal proportions

Julian C. Lui,
Youn Hee Jee,
Presley Garrison,
James R. Iben,
Shanna Yue,
Michal Ad,
Quang Nguyen,
Bijal Kikani,
Yoshiyuki Wakabayashi,
Jeffrey Baron

Published: July 23, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005263

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