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The authors wish to acknowledge the Division of Intramural Research NHLBI Core Facilities: DNA Sequencing and Genomics Core (J. Zhu, Y. Zhang and Y. Yang), Flow Cytometry Core (P. McCoy, L. Samsel and H. Sardon), Proteomics Core (M. Gucek and S. Patel), the Animal Surgery and Resources Core (R. Clevenger, T. Hunt and J. Hawkins) and the Hematology Branch non-human primate program staff (R. Donahue and staff). We are also grateful to L. Prickett-Rice and M. Weglarz of the FACS core facility, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and to M. Waring of Ragon Institute. This work was supported by intramural NICHD (E.F.W.) and NHLBI (E.F.W.) funds; and by grants from USAMRMC OC110262 (B.R.R.), the Vincent Memorial Research Funds (B.R.R.) and the Advanced Medical Research Foundation (B.R.R.).
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Hernandez, S., Vahidi, N., Park, S. et al. Characterization of extracellular DDX4- or Ddx4-positive ovarian cells. Nat Med 21, 1114–1116 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3966
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