About the Authors

Sungeun Kim

sungeunk@amgen.com (SK); venkateshwar.reddy@sanofi.com (VAR)

Current address: Amgen, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Anna Dubrovska

Affiliation The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Richard J. Salamone

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

John R. Walker

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Kathryn B. Grandinetti

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ghislain M. C. Bonamy

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Anthony P. Orth

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jimmy Elliott

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Diana Graus Porta

Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Carlos Garcia-Echeverria

Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Venkateshwar A. Reddy

sungeunk@amgen.com (SK); venkateshwar.reddy@sanofi.com (VAR)

Current address: Sanofi-Aventis US, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Diana Graus Portac and Carlos Garcia-Echeverriac are employed by Novartis Pharma AG. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK VAR. Performed the experiments: SK AD RJS JRW KBG JE DGP. Analyzed the data: SK VAR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRW GMCB APO CGE. Wrote the paper: SK VAR.