About the Authors
- Eun-Gyung Cho
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Affiliation Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Jeffrey D. Zaremba
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Affiliation Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Scott R. McKercher
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Affiliation Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Maria Talantova
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Affiliation Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Shichun Tu
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Affiliation Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Eliezer Masliah
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Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Shing Fai Chan
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Affiliation Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Nobuki Nakanishi
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Affiliation Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Alexey Terskikh
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Affiliation Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Stuart A. Lipton
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* E-mail: slipton@sanfordburnham.org
Affiliations Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
S.A.L. is an inventor on a U.S. patent application filed by his institution related to this work describing the use of MEF2C for neurogenesis from pluripotent stem cells. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EGC SRM SAL. Performed the experiments: EGC JDZ MT ST EM SFC. Analyzed the data: EGC JDZ MT ST EM SFC SAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NN AT. Wrote the paper: EGC SRM SAL.