About the Authors

Jinling Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinling Wang, Stacey Robida-Stubbs

Affiliation Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stacey Robida-Stubbs

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinling Wang, Stacey Robida-Stubbs

Affiliation Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jennifer M. A. Tullet

Current address: Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jean-François Rual

Current address: Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc Vidal

Affiliations Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

T. Keith Blackwell

keith.blackwell@joslin.harvard.edu

Affiliation Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW SRS TKB. Performed the experiments: JW SRS. Analyzed the data: JW SRS TKB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAMT JFR MV. Wrote the paper: JW TKB.