About the Authors

Peter A. Larson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

peterlar@umich.edu (PAL); moranj@umich.edu (JVM)

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

John B. Moldovan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Naveen Jasti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Kidd

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Christine R. Beck

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, University of Connecticut Health Center & The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

John V. Moran

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

peterlar@umich.edu (PAL); moranj@umich.edu (JVM)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

JVM is an inventor on the patent: “Kazazian, H.H., Boeke, J.D., Moran, J.V., and Dombroski, B.A. Compositions and methods of use of mammalian retrotransposons. Application No. 60/006,831; Patent No. 6,150,160; Issued November 21, 2000.” JVM has not made any money from this patent and voluntarily discloses this information.