About the Authors

Jonathan M Goldberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M Goldberg, Gerard Manning

Affiliation Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gerard Manning

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M Goldberg, Gerard Manning

Affiliation Razavi-Newman Center for Bioinformatics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Allen Liu

Affiliation Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Petra Fey

Affiliation Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Karen E Pilcher

Affiliation Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yanji Xu

Affiliation Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Janet L Smith

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: smith@bbri.org

Affiliation Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JMG, GM, and JLS conceived and designed the experiments. JMG, GM, AL, PF, KEP, YX, and JLS performed the experiments. JMG, GM, AL, PF, KEP, YX, and JLS analyzed the data. AL and YX contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. JMG, GM, and JLS wrote the paper.