About the Authors

Craig E Eckfeldt

Contributed equally to this work with: Craig E Eckfeldt, Eric M Mendenhall

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, and Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Eric M Mendenhall

Contributed equally to this work with: Craig E Eckfeldt, Eric M Mendenhall

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, and Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Catherine M Flynn

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, and Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Tzu-Fei Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, and Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Michael A Pickart

Affiliation Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development and Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Suzanne M Grindle

Affiliation Cancer Center Bioinformatics Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Stephen C Ekker

Affiliation Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development and Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Catherine M Verfaillie

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: verfa001@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, and Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

University of Minnesota and Stephen C. Ekker are cofounders and shareholders of a small biotechnology company called Discovery Genomics Inc. that has the exclusive license for the commercial use of morpholinos in zebrafish. Dr. Ekker is a consultant to this company.

Author Contributions

CEE, EMM, SCE, and CMV conceived and designed the experiments. CEE, EMM, CMF, and TFW performed the experiments. CEE, EMM, CMF, TFW, SMG, SCE, and CMV analyzed the data. MAP and SMG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CEE, EMM, SCE, and CMV wrote the paper.