About the Authors

Jane Yuxia Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jane Yuxia Qin, Li Zhang

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Li Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jane Yuxia Qin, Li Zhang

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kayla L. Clift

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Imge Hulur

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andy Peng Xiang

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, The Key Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Bing-Zhong Ren

blahn@bsd.uchicago.edu (BTL); renbz279@nenu.edu.cn (BZR)

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Bruce T. Lahn

blahn@bsd.uchicago.edu (BTL); renbz279@nenu.edu.cn (BZR)

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APX BTL. Performed the experiments: JYQ LZ. Analyzed the data: JYQ BTL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ KC IH APX. Wrote the paper: JYQ BTL. Supervised JYQ: BZR.