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Ldb1, a new guardian of hematopoietic stem cell maintenance

Maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells depends on a fine-tuned transcriptional network. A detailed study of the nuclear adaptor Ldb1 provides additional clues as to how hematopoietic stem cell homeostasis is controlled.

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Figure 1: Schematic presentation of the developmental stages in early hematopoiesis.

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Welinder, E., Murre, C. Ldb1, a new guardian of hematopoietic stem cell maintenance. Nat Immunol 12, 113–114 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0211-113

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