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Correction for Kennedy et al., Production of functional small interfering RNAs by an amino-terminal deletion mutant of human Dicer.

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC5081592 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

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Correction for Kennedy et al., Production of functional small interfering RNAs by an amino-terminal deletion mutant of human Dicer.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20161011 42

PMID: 27729521

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