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Combinatorial Transcription Factor Codes and Neuron Specification

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  1. Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Douglas W. Allan

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  1. Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Marc D. Binder

  2. Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Nobutaka Hirokawa

  3. Göttingen, Germany

    Uwe Windhorst

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Allan, D.W. (2009). Combinatorial Transcription Factor Codes and Neuron Specification. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_1132

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