About the Authors

Cemalettin Bekpen

Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Tomas Marques-Bonet

Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Can Alkan

Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Francesca Antonacci

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Maria Bruna Leogrande

Affiliation Universita' degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

Mario Ventura

Affiliation Universita' degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

Jeffrey M. Kidd

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Priscillia Siswara

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jonathan C. Howard

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Evan E. Eichler

eee@gs.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB JCH EEE. Performed the experiments: CB FA MBL MV PS. Analyzed the data: CB TMB CA JMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB TMB. Wrote the paper: CB JCH EEE.