About the Authors

David Alvaro

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael Lisby

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Rodney Rothstein

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rothstein@cancercenter.columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DA, ML, and RR conceived and designed the experiments. DA performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper.