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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31771299 to Dejing Pan).
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Xu, Y., Pan, D. Interpretation of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017. Sci. China Life Sci. 61, 131–134 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-017-9216-0
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