n/a: not applicable; shRNA-MCs: short hairpin RNA minicircles
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Acknowledgments
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Author contributions
MRT and ALA equally contributed to: Conceptualization, Writing—original draft, Visualization. VRdC and JRDP: Writing—original draft. RPA: Supervision, Writing—review & editing.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
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