A hominoid-specific endogenous retrovirus may have rewired the gene regulatory network shared between primordial germ cells and naïve pluripotent cells

• Jumpei Ito,

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

  Affiliation Division of Systems Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0440-8321

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• Yasunari Seita,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Bell Research Center for Reproductive Health and Cancer, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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• Shohei Kojima,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genome Immunobiology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences and RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Yokohama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6764-4818

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• Nicholas F. Parrish,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genome Immunobiology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences and RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Yokohama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6971-8016

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• Kotaro Sasaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kotaro Sasaki, Kei Sato

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: keisato@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (KS); ksasaki@vet.upenn.edu (KS)

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Kei Sato

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kotaro Sasaki, Kei Sato

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: keisato@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (KS); ksasaki@vet.upenn.edu (KS)

  Affiliations Division of Systems Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, International Vaccine Design Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-1380

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