About the Authors

Xiaohong Li

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: xili@fhcrc.org

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Steven G Self

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Patricia C Galipeau

Affiliation Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas G Paulson

Affiliations Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America , Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Brian J Reid

Affiliations Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America , Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America , Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America , Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

XL, SGS, PCG, TGP, and BJR conceived and designed the experiments, and performed the experiments. XL analyzed the data. XL contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. XL, SGS, PCG, TGP, and BJR wrote the paper.