About the Authors

Timothy J. Dahlem

Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy J. Dahlem, Kazuyuki Hoshijima

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Kazuyuki Hoshijima

Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy J. Dahlem, Kazuyuki Hoshijima

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Michael J. Jurynec

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Derrick Gunther

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Colby G. Starker

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development and Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Alexandra S. Locke

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Allison M. Weis

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Daniel F. Voytas

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development and Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

David Jonah Grunwald

grunwald@genetics.utah.edu

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

DFV is a listed inventor on a patent application titled "TAL effector-mediated DNA modification" that is co-owned by Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota and that has been licensed to Cellectis, a European biotechnology company. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJD KH MJJ DJG. Performed the experiments: TJD KH MJJ DG ASL AMW DJG. Analyzed the data: TJD KH MJJ DG ASL AMW DJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGS DFV. Wrote the paper: DJG KH TJD MJJ.