Fetal Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Differentiating towards Chondrocytes Acquire a Gene Expression Profile Resembling Human Growth Plate Cartilage

• Sandy A. van Gool ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandy A. van Gool, Joyce A. M. Emons

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Joyce A. M. Emons ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandy A. van Gool, Joyce A. M. Emons

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Jeroen C. H. Leijten,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental BioEngineering, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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• Eva Decker,

  Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Carsten Sticht,

  Affiliation Medical Research Center, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Johannes C. van Houwelingen,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Jelle J. Goeman,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Carin Kleijburg,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Sicco A. Scherjon,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Norbert Gretz,

  Affiliation Medical Research Center, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Jan Maarten Wit,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Gudrun Rappold,

  Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Janine N. Post,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental BioEngineering, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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• Marcel Karperien

  * E-mail: h.b.j.karperien@utwente.nl

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Developmental BioEngineering, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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