The Rho GTPase regulator ARHGEF3 orchestrates hair placode budding by coordinating cell fate and P-cadherin patterning in mice

• Krithika Kalyanakrishnan,

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

  Affiliations Département de biologie moléculaire, biochimie médicale et pathologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, Oncology Research Program, CHU de Québec—Université Laval Research Center, Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche sur le cancer de l’Université Laval (CRC), Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche en organogénèse expérimentale (LOEX), Québec, Québec, Canada

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• Amy Beaudin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Beaudin, Alexandra Jetté

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Département de biologie moléculaire, biochimie médicale et pathologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, Oncology Research Program, CHU de Québec—Université Laval Research Center, Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche sur le cancer de l’Université Laval (CRC), Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche en organogénèse expérimentale (LOEX), Québec, Québec, Canada

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• Alexandra Jetté ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Beaudin, Alexandra Jetté

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

  Affiliations Oncology Research Program, CHU de Québec—Université Laval Research Center, Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche sur le cancer de l’Université Laval (CRC), Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche en organogénèse expérimentale (LOEX), Québec, Québec, Canada

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• Sarah Ghezelbash,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

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• Diana Ioana Hotea,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Département de biologie moléculaire, biochimie médicale et pathologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, Oncology Research Program, CHU de Québec—Université Laval Research Center, Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche sur le cancer de l’Université Laval (CRC), Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche en organogénèse expérimentale (LOEX), Québec, Québec, Canada

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• Jie Chen,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Philippe Lefrançois,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

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• Mélanie Laurin

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

  * E-mail: melanie.laurin@crchudequebec.ulaval.ca

  Affiliations Département de biologie moléculaire, biochimie médicale et pathologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, Oncology Research Program, CHU de Québec—Université Laval Research Center, Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche sur le cancer de l’Université Laval (CRC), Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche en organogénèse expérimentale (LOEX), Québec, Québec, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7198-3257

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