About the Authors

Ivan Iossifov

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Raul Rodriguez-Esteban

Affiliation Biotherapeutics and Integrative Biology, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States of America

Ilya Mayzus

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kathleen J. Millen

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrey Rzhetsky

arzhetsky@uchicago.edu

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: II KJM AR. Performed the experiments: II RRE IM. Analyzed the data: II KJM AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRE IM. Wrote the paper: II KJM AR.