About the Authors

Zhijia Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijia Tan, Ben Niu

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

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Ben Niu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijia Tan, Ben Niu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Kwok Yeung Tsang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Ian G. Melhado

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Shinsuke Ohba

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Bioengineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Eli and Edythe Broad-CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, W.M. Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xinjun He

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Eli and Edythe Broad-CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, W.M. Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yongheng Huang

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Group Structure Biochemistry, Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Genome Regulation Laboratory, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Guangzhou, China

Cheng Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Andrew P. McMahon

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Eli and Edythe Broad-CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, W.M. Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ralf Jauch

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genome Regulation Laboratory, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Guangzhou, China

Danny Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Michael Q. Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Systems Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, TNLIST, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Kathryn S. E. Cheah

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kathycheah@hku.hk

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.