About the Authors
- Eric A Miska
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Contributed equally to this work with: Eric A Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Allison L Abbott
Current address: Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra
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Contributed equally to this work with: Eric A Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Allison L Abbott
Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Allison L Abbott
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Contributed equally to this work with: Eric A Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Allison L Abbott
Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Nelson C Lau
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Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Andrew B Hellman
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Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Shannon M McGonagle
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Current address: Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David P Bartel
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Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Victor R Ambros
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- H. Robert Horvitz
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: horvitz@mit.edu
Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
EAM, EAS, ALA, DPB, VRA, and HRH conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. EAM, EAS, ALA, NCL, ABH, and SMM performed the experiments. EAM, EAS, and ALA analyzed the data. NCL contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.