miR-9a minimizes the phenotypic impact of genomic diversity by buffering a transcription factor.

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Published in Cell on December 19, 2013

Authors

Justin J Cassidy1, Aashish R Jha2, Diana M Posadas1, Ritika Giri1, Koen J T Venken3, Jingran Ji1, Hongmei Jiang4, Hugo J Bellen5, Kevin P White2, Richard W Carthew6

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
2: Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Departments of Human Genetics and Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
3: Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
4: Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
5: Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
6: Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. Electronic address: r-carthew@northwestern.edu.

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