About the Authors

Abram Gabriel

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gabriel@cabm.rutgers.edu (AG); maitreya@princeton.edu (MJD)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Johannes Dapprich

Affiliation Generation Biotech, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States of America

Mark Kunkel

Affiliation Generation Biotech, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States of America

David Gresham

Affiliations Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America , Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Stephen C Pratt

¤ Current address: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Maitreya J Dunham

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gabriel@cabm.rutgers.edu (AG); maitreya@princeton.edu (MJD)

Affiliation Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

Some reagents were the gift of Qiagen and others were the gift of Generation Biotech. One author (JD) is the founder of Generation Biotech and an inventor of haplotype-specific extraction (United States 2001–0031467 A1). Qiagen has licensed the commercial rights to haplotype-specific extraction products from Generation Biotech. AG, JD, and MJD have applied for a patent based on this work.

Author Contributions

AG, JD, DG, SCP, and MJD conceived and designed the experiments. AG, JD, MK, and DG performed the experiments. AG, JD, MK, DG, SCP, and MJD analyzed the data. AG, JD, DG, and MJD contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AG wrote the paper.