About the Authors

Reshmi Chowdhury

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Philippe R. J. Bois

Affiliation The Scripps Research Institute, Genome Plasticity Laboratory, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eleanor Feingold

Affiliation Departments of Human Genetics and Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stephanie L. Sherman

ssherma@emory.edu (SLS); vcheung@mail.med.upenn.edu (VGC)

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Vivian G. Cheung

ssherma@emory.edu (SLS); vcheung@mail.med.upenn.edu (VGC)

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VGC. Performed the experiments: PRJB VGC. Analyzed the data: RC EF VGC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLS VGC. Wrote the paper: RC PRJB EF SLS VGC.