About the Authors

Alice Gerrits

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Gerrits, Yang Li, Bruno M. Tesson

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Section Stem Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Yang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Gerrits, Yang Li, Bruno M. Tesson

Affiliation Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

Bruno M. Tesson

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Gerrits, Yang Li, Bruno M. Tesson

Affiliation Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

Leonid V. Bystrykh

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Section Stem Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Ellen Weersing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Section Stem Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Albertina Ausema

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Section Stem Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Bert Dontje

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Section Stem Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Xusheng Wang

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Rainer Breitling

Affiliation Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

Ritsert C. Jansen

r.c.jansen@rug.nl (RCJ); g.de.haan@med.umcg.nl (GdH)

Affiliation Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

Gerald de Haan

r.c.jansen@rug.nl (RCJ); g.de.haan@med.umcg.nl (GdH)

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Section Stem Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LVB RCJ GdH. Performed the experiments: AG LVB EW AA BD. Analyzed the data: AG YL BMT RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL BMT XW RB RCJ. Wrote the paper: AG YL BMT RB RCJ GdH.