Runx2 is essential for the transdifferentiation of chondrocytes into osteoblasts

• Xin Qin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Qin, Qing Jiang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Qing Jiang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Qin, Qing Jiang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Kenichi Nagano,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology and Bone Metabolism, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3145-4841

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• Takeshi Moriishi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Toshihiro Miyazaki,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Hisato Komori,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6802-949X

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• Kosei Ito,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Bone Biology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Klaus von der Mark,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine I, Nikolaus-Fiebiger Center of Molecular Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Chiharu Sakane,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Life Science Support Center, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Hitomi Kaneko,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Toshihisa Komori

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: komorit@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Basic and Translational Research Center for Hard Tissue Disease, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0284-5723

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