About the Authors

Marco Barchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Barchi, Ignasi Roig

Current address: Department of Public Health and Cell Biology, Section of Anatomy, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Ignasi Roig

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Barchi, Ignasi Roig

Affiliation Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Monica Di Giacomo

Current address: EMBL Monterotondo, Adriano Buzzati-Traverso Campus, Monterotondo, Italy

Affiliation Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Dirk G. de Rooij

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Scott Keeney

s-keeney@ski.mskcc.org (SK); m-jasin@ski.mskcc.org (MJ)

Affiliations Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Maria Jasin

s-keeney@ski.mskcc.org (SK); m-jasin@ski.mskcc.org (MJ)

Affiliations Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB IR MD SK MJ. Performed the experiments: MB IR MD. Analyzed the data: MB IR MD DD SK MJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD. Wrote the paper: MB IR SK MJ.