About the Authors

Amy C. Groth

Contributed equally to this work with: Amy C. Groth, Mingdong Liu

Current address: Department of Biology, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mingdong Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Amy C. Groth, Mingdong Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Hao Wang

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Emilie Lovelett

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David W. Emery

demery@uw.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACG ML DWE. Performed the experiments: ACG ML HW EL DWE. Analyzed the data: ACG HW DWE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW. Wrote the manuscript: ACG DWE ML HW.