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Germline transmission of RNAi in mice

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Figure 1: Heritable repression of Neil1 expression by RNAi in several tissues.
Figure 2: Reduction in Neil1 protein correlates with the presence of siRNAs.

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We thank S.Y. Kim for help with transgenesis experiments. M.A.C. is supported by a predoctoral fellowship from the U.S. Army Breast Cancer Research Program. G.J.H. is supported by an Innovator Award from the U.S. Army Breast Cancer Research Program and is a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. This work was supported in part by grants from the N.I.H (G.J.H. and T.A.R). T.A.R. also thanks M. Frohman and A.P. Grollman for helpful discussions.

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Carmell, M., Zhang, L., Conklin, D. et al. Germline transmission of RNAi in mice. Nat Struct Mol Biol 10, 91–92 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb896

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