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Unexpected failure rates for modular assembly of engineered zinc fingers
- Cherie L Ramirez1,2 na1,
- Jonathan E Foley1 na1,
- David A Wright3,
- Felix Müller-Lerch4,
- Shamim H Rahman4,
- Tatjana I Cornu4,
- Ronnie J Winfrey3,
- Jeffry D Sander3,5,
- Fengli Fu3,5,
- Jeffrey A Townsend3,
- Toni Cathomen4,
- Daniel F Voytas3 &
- …
- J Keith Joung1,2,6
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NOTE: In the version of this correspondence initially published, the two previously published datasets analyzed were labeled with incorrect references in Figure 1b. Reference 2 should be associated with the second column (80 sites) and Reference 3 should be associated with the third column (96 sites). The weblink for the Zinc Finger Consortium website was incorrect and should be http://www.zincfingers.org/. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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In the version of this correspondence initially published, the two previously published datasets analyzed were labeled with incorrect references in Figure 1b. Reference 2 should be associated with the second column (80 sites) and Reference 3 should be associated with the third column (96 sites). The weblink for the Zinc Finger Consortium website was incorrect and should be http://www.zincfingers.org/. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Acknowledgements
We thank D. Dobbs and P. Zaback for helpful discussions and E. Unger-Wallace (Iowa State University) for contributions to zinc-finger array construction. J.K.J. is supported by the US National Institutes of Health (R21 RR024189), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (MCCRAY07G0) and the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Pathology; D.F.V. is supported by a US National Science Foundation grant DBI 0501678; T.C. is supported by the German Research Foundation (SPP1230 CA311/2); C.L.R. is supported by a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; T.I.C. is supported by a fellowship from the Swiss Foundation for Grants in Biology and Medicine.
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Cherie L Ramirez, Jonathan E Foley & J Keith Joung
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Cherie L Ramirez & J Keith Joung
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