About the Authors

Amy E Kiernan

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Jingxia Xu

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Thomas Gridley

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tom.gridley@jax.org

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AEK and TG conceived and designed experiments. AEK and JX performed experiments. All authors analyzed the data. AEK wrote the paper.