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Yulong Wei1andXuhua Xia12*

  1. Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Canada K1N 6N5 E-mail: , Telephone: 1-613-204-2347
  2. Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Canada ON K1H 8M5

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Acknowledgment

This study is funded by the Discovery Grant from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN/261252-2013) to XX. XX2 is supported by NSERC postgraduate scholarship. We thank YYfor his help with statistical and bioinformatic analysis, ZZ1 and ZZ2 for discussion.

Author contributions

(XX and YY conceived the project, XX supervised the project, YY did the data generation and analysis, XX, YY and ZZ wrote the manuscript)

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