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We thank W. Earnshaw, T. Yen and J. Harrington for anti–CENP antibodies. This work was supported by NIH grants HG00107 and HD32111 to H.F.W.
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Sullivan, B., Willard, H. Stable dicentric X chromosomes with two functional centromeres. Nat Genet 20, 227–228 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/3024
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