1 A Panel of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells From Chimpanzees: a Resource for Comparative 2 Functional Genomics 3 4 Irene Gallego Romero1,*,†, Bryan J. Pavlovic1,*, Irene Hernando-Herraez2, Xiang Zhou3, Michelle C. 5 Ward1, Nicholas E. Banovich1, Courtney L. Kagan1, Jonathan E. Burnett1, Constance H. Huang1, Amy 6 Mitrano1, Claudia I. Chavarria1, Inbar Friedrich Ben-Nun4,5, Yingchun Li6,7, Karen Sabatini4,7,8 , Trevor 7 R. Leonardo4,7,8, Mana Parast6,7, Tomas Marques-Bonet2,9, Louise C. Laurent7,8, Jeanne F. Loring4, and 8 Yoav Gilad1, † 9 10 1. Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 11 2. ICREA, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), PRBB, Barcelona 08003, Spain 12 3. Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 13 4. Center for Regenerative Medicine, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps 14 Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA 15 5. Present address: Lonza Walkersville, Inc. 8830 Biggs Ford Road, Walkersville, MD 16 21793, USA 17 6. Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103, 18 USA 19 7. Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, 2880 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive, La 20 Jolla, CA 92037, USA 21 8. Department of Reproductive Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, 22 CA 92103, USA 23 9. Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG), Barcelona, Spain, 08023, Spain 24 25 * These authors contributed equally to this work. 26 † To whom correspondence should be addressed: 27 email:
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[email protected] 29 tel: +1 773 702 8507 30 31 Keywords: 32 iPSC, chimpanzee, induced pluripotent stem cells, evolution, Pan troglodytes, cell panel 1 33 Abstract 34 Comparative genomics studies in primates are restricted due to our limited access to samples.