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Deciding the decider: Mef2c in hematopoiesis

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Factors influencing progenitor cell 'choice' between lymphoid and myeloid lineage fates are incompletely understood. New work implicates the transcription factor Mef2c as one component needed to promote lymphoid and suppress myeloid lineage differentiation.

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Figure 1: The Mef2c regulatory circuit and the main cell fates it directs.

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  1. Rachel M. Gerstein is in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Graduate Program in Immunology/Virology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA. rachel.gerstein@umassmed.edu,

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Gerstein, R. Deciding the decider: Mef2c in hematopoiesis. Nat Immunol 10, 235–236 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0309-235

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