About the Authors

Chao Cheng

chao.cheng@dartmouth.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Matthew Ung

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Gavin D. Grant

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Michael L. Whitfield

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC. Performed the experiments: CC MU. Analyzed the data: CC MU GDG MLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC. Wrote the paper: CC MU MLW.