About the Authors

Gianni Liti

gianni.liti@nottingham.ac.uk (GL); ed.louis@nottingham.ac.uk (EJL)

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Svasti Haricharan

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Francisco A. Cubillos

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Anna L. Tierney

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Sarah Sharp

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Alison A. Bertuch

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Leopold Parts

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Bailes

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Edward J. Louis

gianni.liti@nottingham.ac.uk (GL); ed.louis@nottingham.ac.uk (EJL)

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL AAB EJL. Performed the experiments: GL SH FAC ALT SS LP EB. Analyzed the data: GL LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL EJL. Wrote the paper: GL.