About the Authors

Idan Menashe

¤ Current address: Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel , Crown Human Genome Center, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Tatjana Abaffy

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Yehudit Hasin

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel , Crown Human Genome Center, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Sivan Goshen

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel

Vered Yahalom

Affiliation National Blood Group Reference Laboratory, Magen David Adom National Blood Services Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Charles W Luetje

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Doron Lancet

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: doron.lancet@weizmann.ac.il

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel , Crown Human Genome Center, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

IM, TA, CWL, and DL conceived and designed the experiments. IM and TA performed the experiments. IM, TA, CWL, and DL analyzed the data. SG, VY, and CWL contributed reagent/materials and analysis tools. IM wrote the paper with contributions from TA, YH, CWL, and DL.