The pluripotent stem cell-specific transcript ESRG is dispensable for human pluripotency

• Kazutoshi Takahashi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kazu@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5329-8395

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• Michiko Nakamura,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Chikako Okubo,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5562-410X

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• Zane Kliesmete,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Anthropology and Human Genomics, Department of Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7017-6616

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• Mari Ohnuki,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Anthropology and Human Genomics, Department of Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany

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• Megumi Narita,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Akira Watanabe,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4381-4229

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• Mai Ueda,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4639-4100

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• Yasuhiro Takashima,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0126-7260

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• Ines Hellmann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Anthropology and Human Genomics, Department of Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany

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• Shinya Yamanaka

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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