About the Authors

Jan E. Aagaard

jaagaard@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stevan A. Springer

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

Scott D. Soelberg

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Willie J. Swanson

Affiliation Department of 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: JEA SAS WJS. Performed the experiments: JEA SAS SDS. Analyzed the data: JEA SAS SDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEA SAS SDS. Wrote the paper: JEA SAS.