# References common essential genes

**URL:** <https://forum.depmap.org/t/references-common-essential-genes/66>\
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**Tags:** data\
**Created:** [July 3, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.depmap.org/t/references-common-essential-genes/66 "2020-07-03T11:25:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![dannyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@dannyM](https://forum.depmap.org/u/dannyM)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.depmap.org/t/references-common-essential-genes/66/1 "2020-07-03T11:25:52Z")

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Hi there,

at the description file of the common essential data file ( common\_essentials.csv) the reference of Blomen 2014 is wrongly written by Biomen 2014. This is the case for all versions, since 18Q1 I would say.

Best,  
Danny

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Dempster](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.depmap.org/joshua_dempster/32/19_2.png) [@Joshua\_Dempster](https://forum.depmap.org/u/Joshua_Dempster)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.depmap.org/t/references-common-essential-genes/66/2 "2020-07-09T14:29:45Z")

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Thanks for pointing that out! We’ll fix it in future datasets.