About the Authors

Byron Yu-Lin Kuo

Affiliations Genetics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada , Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ying Chen

Affiliation Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Slavita Bohacec

Affiliation Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Öjvind Johansson

Affiliation Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Kunliga Tekniska Högskolan, Albanova, Stockholm, Sweden

Wyeth W Wasserman

Affiliations Genetics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada , Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Elizabeth M Simpson

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: simpson@cmmt.ubc.ca

Affiliations Genetics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada , Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BYLK, WWW, and EMS conceived and designed the experiments. BYLK performed the experiments. BYLK analyzed the data. YC and SB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. ÖJ contributed intellectually to the algorithm. BYLK developed the software. BYLK, WWW, and EMS wrote the paper.