About the Authors

Giovanna Vinci

Affiliation Institut Cochin, Département de Génétique et Développement. Inserm, U567, CNRS, UMR 8104, Université Paris 5, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, UM 3, Paris, France

Xuhua Xia

Affiliation CAREG and Biology Department, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Reiner A. Veitia

veitia@cochin.inserm.fr

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Département de Génétique et Développement. Inserm, U567, CNRS, UMR 8104, Université Paris 5, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, UM 3, Paris, France, Université Denis Diderot/Paris VII, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GV XX RAV. Performed the experiments: RAV. Analyzed the data: GV XX RAV. Wrote the paper: GV XX RAV.