Expression and differentiation between OCT4A and its Pseudogenes in human ESCs and differentiated adult somatic cells.

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Published in PLoS One on February 24, 2014

Authors

Mojca Jez1, Sakthikumar Ambady2, Olga Kashpur3, Alexandra Grella3, Christopher Malcuit4, Lucy Vilner5, Primoz Rozman1, Tanja Dominko6

Author Affiliations

1: Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.
3: Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.
4: Bioengineering Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America ; CellThera, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.
5: CellThera, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.
6: Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America ; Bioengineering Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America ; CellThera, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.

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