About the Authors

Ashleigh E. Schaffer

Contributed equally to this work with: Ashleigh E. Schaffer, Brandon L. Taylor

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Brandon L. Taylor

Contributed equally to this work with: Ashleigh E. Schaffer, Brandon L. Taylor

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jacqueline R. Benthuysen

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jingxuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fabrizio Thorel

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Weiping Yuan

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yang Jiao

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Klaus H. Kaestner

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Pedro L. Herrera

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Mark A. Magnuson

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Catherine Lee May

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Maike Sander

masander@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AES BLT JL CLM MS. Performed the experiments: AES BLT JRB JL FT WY YJ. Analyzed the data: AES BLT JRB JL FT YJ KHK PLH CLM MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WY MAM. Wrote the paper: AES BLT MS.