About the Authors

Audrey Letourneau

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Gilda Cobellis

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Biochemistry and General Pathology, Seconda Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Alexandre Fort

Affiliation Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Federico Santoni

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Marco Garieri

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Emilie Falconnet

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Pascale Ribaux

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Anne Vannier

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Michel Guipponi

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Piero Carninci

Affiliation Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Christelle Borel

stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); christelle.borel@unige.ch (CB)

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Stylianos E. Antonarakis

stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); christelle.borel@unige.ch (CB)

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, iGE3 Institute of Genetics and Genomics of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL GC CB SEA. Performed the experiments: AL GC EF PR AV MG CB. Analyzed the data: AL AF FS MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC AF PC. Wrote the paper: AL CB SEA.