About the Authors

Julia Arand

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Genetics/Epigenetics, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

David Spieler

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

Tommy Karius

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Genetics/Epigenetics, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

Miguel R. Branco

Affiliations Epigenetics Programme, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Daniela Meilinger

Affiliation Department of Biology II, LMU München, Biozentrum Martinsried, Martinsried, Germany

Alexander Meissner

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas Jenuwein

Affiliation MPI for Immunology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany

Guoliang Xu

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Heinrich Leonhardt

Affiliation Department of Biology II, LMU München, Biozentrum Martinsried, Martinsried, Germany

Verena Wolf

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

Jörn Walter

j.walter@mx.uni-saarland.de

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Genetics/Epigenetics, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW VW. Performed the experiments: JA DS TK. Analyzed the data: JA DS MRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM GX TJ HL DM. Wrote the paper: JA JW VW.