About the Authors

Bertrand Servin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bservin@toulouse.inra.fr

Current address: INRA Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Matthew Stephens

Current address: Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BS and MS conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, and wrote the paper.