What makes a histone variant a variant: Changing H2A to become H2A.Z

• Hilary T. Brewis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2016-6887

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• Alice Y. Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Aline Gaub,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-9547

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• Justine J. Lau,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6611-4340

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• Peter C. Stirling,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2651-4539

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• Michael S. Kobor

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: msk@bcchr.ca

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4140-1743

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