About the Authors

Roberta L. Hannibal

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Edward B. Chuong

Current address: Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Tallahassee Florida, United States of America

David M. Gilbert

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Tallahassee Florida, United States of America

Anton Valouev

Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Julie C. Baker

jbaker@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLH EBC AV JCB. Performed the experiments: RLH EBC JCRM. Analyzed the data: RLH EBC JCRM DMG AV JCB. Wrote the paper: RLH JCB.