About the Authors

Femke Simmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Femke Simmer, Celine Moorman, Alexander M van der Linden

Affiliation Hubrecht Laboratory, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Celine Moorman

Contributed equally to this work with: Femke Simmer, Celine Moorman, Alexander M van der Linden

Affiliation Hubrecht Laboratory, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Alexander M van der Linden

Contributed equally to this work with: Femke Simmer, Celine Moorman, Alexander M van der Linden

Affiliation Hubrecht Laboratory, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ewart Kuijk

Affiliation Hubrecht Laboratory, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Peter V.E van den Berghe

Affiliation Hubrecht Laboratory, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ravi S Kamath

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Institute and Department of Genetics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Andrew G Fraser

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Institute and Department of Genetics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Julie Ahringer

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Institute and Department of Genetics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ronald H. A Plasterk

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Plasterk@niob.knaw.nl

Affiliation Hubrecht Laboratory, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

RHAP conceived and designed the experiments. FS, CM, AMvdL, EK, and PvdB performed the experiments. FS, CM, AMvdL, and JA analysed the data. RSK, AGF, and JA contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. FS wrote the paper.