About the Authors

Ellen Markljung

Contributed equally to this work with: Ellen Markljung, Lin Jiang

Current address: Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, CMM 02, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Lin Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ellen Markljung, Lin Jiang

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Jacob D. Jaffe

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tarjei S. Mikkelsen

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ola Wallerman

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, The Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Martin Larhammar

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Xiaolan Zhang

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Li Wang

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Veronica Saenz-Vash

Current address: Novartis Biologics/Analytics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andreas Gnirke

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anders M. Lindroth

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Romain Barrés

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Section of Integrative Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jie Yan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Section of Integrative Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Sara Strömberg

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, The Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Sachinandan De

Current address: Animal Biotechnology Centre, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Fredrik Pontén

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, The Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Eric S. Lander

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven A. Carr

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Juleen R. Zierath

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Section of Integrative Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Klas Kullander

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Claes Wadelius

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, The Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Göran Andersson

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Göran Hjälm

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Leif Andersson

Leif.Andersson@imbim.uu.se

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

A patent has been filed concerning the possible commercial use of the ZBED6 gene and protein.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: JDJ JRZ KK CW KLT GA GH LA. Performed the experiments: EM LJ JDJ OW ML XZ LW VSV AG AML RB JY KK GH. Analyzed the data: EM LJ JDJ TSM OW ML AML RB JY SD KK CW KLT GA GH LA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS FP ESL SC. Wrote the paper: All authors contributed to the writing of this paper.