SOX6 controls dorsal progenitor identity and interneuron diversity during neocortical development
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1Massachusetts General Hospital–Harvard Medical School Center for Nervous System Repair, Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 2Nayef Al-Rodhan Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 3Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 4Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 5Present address: Department of Basic Neurosciences and Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Correspondence should be addressed to J.D.M. ([email protected]).
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