About the Authors

Fan Xia

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jinghong Li

Current address: Department of Medicine, The Unity Health System, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Gavin W Hickey

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Amy Tsurumi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Kimberly Larson

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Dongdong Guo

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Shian-Jang Yan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Louis Silver-Morse

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Willis X Li

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Willis_Li@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

WXL conceived and designed the experiments. FX, JL, GWH, AT, KL, DG, S-JY, and LS-M performed the experiments. FX, JL, S-JY, and WXL analyzed the data. FX and WXL wrote the paper.