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We would like to thank Dr Claire Gordy for her thoughtful reading of this manuscript. The work in the authors' laboratory is supported by NIH grants AI73947, AI074754 and AI074944.
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He, MX., He, YW. Suppressing autoimmunity by TGF-β: not just through Treg cells. Cell Mol Immunol 9, 371–372 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/cmi.2012.24
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