About the Authors
- Christy L. Strong
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered first authors.
Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States of America
- Horacio P. Guerra
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered first authors.
Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States of America
- Kiran R. Mathew
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Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States of America
- Nervik Roy
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Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States of America
- Lacy R. Simpson
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Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States of America
- Martin R. Schiller
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* E-mail: martin.schiller@unlv.edu
Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States of America
Competing Interests
This study is part of a pending patent application (US20140072961, WO2014011817A2) to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office entitled “Genome surgery with paired, permeant endonuclease excision” authored by MRS and CLS. This intellectual property is owned by The Board of Reagents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CLS HPG MRS. Performed the experiments: CLS HPG KRM NR LRS. Analyzed the data: CLS HPG MRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HPG MRS. Wrote the paper: CLS HPG MRS.