About the Authors
- Li Wang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Daniel G. Hurley
Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Daniel G. Hurley
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Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Daniel G. Hurley
Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Wendy Watkins
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Hiromitsu Araki
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Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, GNI Ltd, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoshinori Tamada
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Affiliations Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, GNI Ltd, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Anita Muthukaruppan
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Louis Ranjard
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Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Eliane Derkac
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Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Seiya Imoto
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Affiliation Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Satoru Miyano
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Affiliation Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Edmund J. Crampin
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Affiliations Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Cristin G. Print
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* E-mail: c.print@auckland.ac.nz
Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Bioinformatics Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Competing Interests
HA and YT are past employees of GNI Ltd., a Japanese biotechnology company that provided a subset of the siRNA reagents used in this study. HA, YT, SI, SM, and CGP have held/hold stock in GNI Ltd. None of the authors are current employees of GNI Ltd. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LW DGH EJC CGP. Performed the experiments: LW DGH AM. Analyzed the data: WW HA YT LR ED SI SM EJC CGP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DGH YT SI SM. Wrote the paper: LW CGP.