About the Authors

Ryan N Gutenkunst

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rng7@cornell.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Joshua J Waterfall

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Fergal P Casey

Affiliation UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland

Kevin S Brown

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher R Myers

Affiliation Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

James P Sethna

Affiliation Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

All authors conceived and designed the experiments. RNG performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper. RNG, JJW, FPC, and CRM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.