About the Authors

Tianquan Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianquan Jin, Yoshihiro Ito

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yoshihiro Ito

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianquan Jin, Yoshihiro Ito

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xianghong Luan

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Smit Dangaria

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Cameron Walker

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael Allen

Affiliation University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ashok Kulkarni

Affiliation National Institutes of Health, Functional Genomics Unit, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carolyn Gibson

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Richard Braatz

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Xiubei Liao

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Thomas G. H. Diekwisch

tomdkw@uic.edu

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: TGHD. Performed the experiments: TJ YI SD CW MA RB TGHD. Analyzed the data: TJ YI XL RB XL TGHD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK CG. Wrote the paper: TJ RB TGHD.