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Publisher Correction: Recognition of RNA N6-methyladenosine by IGF2BP proteins enhances mRNA stability and
Huilin Huang1,2, Hengyou Weng1,2, Wenju Sun3,4
1Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Nature Cell Biology
|August 29, 2020
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An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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