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A blueprint of cell identity

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Research on converting one cell type to another will be aided by systematic mapping of the gene-regulatory networks in mammalian cells.

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Figure 1: Gene-expression data from 11 samples corresponding to five cell types—colon, fetal liver, adult liver, induced hepatocyte (iHep) and colon-engrafted induced hepatocyte—profiled in one of the CellNet studies2 were downloaded from GEO (GSE59037).

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  1. Avi Ma'ayan & Qiaonan Duan are in the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.,

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Ma'ayan, A., Duan, Q. A blueprint of cell identity. Nat Biotechnol 32, 1007–1008 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3035

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