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Michelle L. T. Nguyen
Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle L. T. Nguyen, Dimitre R. Simeonov
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Dimitre R. Simeonov
Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle L. T. Nguyen, Dimitre R. Simeonov
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-8664
Alexander Marson
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California, United States of AmericaCitation: Nguyen MLT, Simeonov DR, Marson A (2017) "T-bet"-ing on autoimmunity variants. PLoS Genet13(9): e1006924. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006924
Editor: Christine A. Wells, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Published: September 7, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Nguyen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: A.M. holds a Career Award for Medical Scientists from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. The funders had no role in the preparation of the article.
Competing interests: I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: A.M. is an advisor to Juno Therapeutics and PACT Therapeutics and is a founder of Spotlight Therapeutics. The Marson lab has received sponsored research funding from Juno Therapeutics and Epinomics.
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