About the Authors

Gregory S. Barsh

Affiliations HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Needhi Bhalla

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Francesca Cole

Affiliation Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Gregory P. Copenhaver

gcopenhaver@bio.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and the Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Soni Lacefield

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Diana E. Libuda

Affiliation Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

GSB and GPC are Editors-in-Chief of PLOS Genetics. The authors have no other competing interests.