About the Authors

Malin C Andersen

Affiliations Department of Gene Technology, School of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden , Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital—Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Pär G Engström

Affiliations Computational Biology Unit—Bergen Center for Computational Science and Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, HIB, Bergen, Norway , Program for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Stuart Lithwick

Affiliations Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada , Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT), Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

David Arenillas

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

Per Eriksson

Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital—Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Boris Lenhard

Affiliation Computational Biology Unit—Bergen Center for Computational Science and Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, HIB, Bergen, Norway

Wyeth W Wasserman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Wyeth@cmmt.ubc.ca (WWW), Jacob@biotech.kth.se (JO)

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

Jacob Odeberg

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Wyeth@cmmt.ubc.ca (WWW), Jacob@biotech.kth.se (JO)

Affiliations Department of Gene Technology, School of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden , Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital—Solna, Stockholm, Sweden , Karolinska Biomics Center, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MCA performed the experiments. MCA, PGE, and WWW analyzed the data. MCA, PGE, SL, DA, PE, BL, and WWW contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. BL, WWW, and JO co-supervised this project. BL, WWW, and JO conceived and designed the experiments. MCA, BL, JO, and WWW wrote the paper.