About the Authors

Lucia Carbone

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucia Carbone, Gery M Vessere

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lcarbone@chori.org

Affiliation BACPAC Resources, Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Gery M Vessere

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucia Carbone, Gery M Vessere

Affiliation BACPAC Resources, Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Boudewijn F.H. ten Hallers

Affiliation BACPAC Resources, Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Baoli Zhu

Affiliation BACPAC Resources, Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Kazutoyo Osoegawa

Affiliation BACPAC Resources, Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Alan Mootnick

Affiliation Gibbon Conservation Center, Santa Clarita, California, United States of America

Andrea Kofler

Affiliation Chrombios GmbH, Raubling, Germany

Johannes Wienberg

Affiliation Anthropology and Human Genetics, Department of Biology II, Munich University, Munich, Germany

Jane Rogers

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sean Humphray

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Carol Scott

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

R. Alan Harris

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Aleksandar Milosavljevic

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Pieter J de Jong

Affiliation BACPAC Resources, Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

LC and PJdJ conceived and designed the experiments. LC, AK, and JW performed the experiments. GMV, CS, RAH, and AM analyzed the data. BFHtH, BZ, KO, AM, JW, JR, and SH contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. LC, GMV, and PJdJ wrote the paper.