About the Authors

Ronghai Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ronghai Cheng, Ross Ka-Kit Leung

Affiliation Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China

Ross Ka-Kit Leung

Contributed equally to this work with: Ronghai Cheng, Ross Ka-Kit Leung

Affiliation Division of Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Yao Chen

Affiliation Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China

Yidan Pan

Affiliation Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China

Yin Tong

Affiliation Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China

Zhoufang Li

Affiliation Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China

Luwen Ning

Affiliation Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China

Xuefeng B. Ling

Affiliation Departments of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jiankui He

hejk@sustc.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RKL JH. Performed the experiments: RKL RC YC. Analyzed the data: RKL RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC YC YP YT ZL LN. Wrote the paper: RKL JH RC XBL.