About the Authors

Peter C. Stirling

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Michelle S. Bloom

Affiliation Genome Instability Section, Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tejomayee Solanki-Patil

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Stephanie Smith

Affiliation Genome Instability Section, Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Payal Sipahimalani

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Zhijian Li

Affiliation Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Megan Kofoed

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Shay Ben-Aroya

Current address: The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Kyungjae Myung

Affiliation Genome Instability Section, Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Philip Hieter

Hieter@msl.ubc.ca

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCS PH. Performed the experiments: PCS MSB TS-P SS PS MK. Analyzed the data: PCS PS KM PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZL SB-A. Wrote the paper: PCS PH.