About the Authors

Huawen Lin

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Zhengyan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Suyang Guo

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Fan Chen

Affiliation Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jonathan M. Kessler

Affiliation Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Yan Mei Wang

Affiliation Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Susan K. Dutcher

dutcher@genetics.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL SKD. Performed the experiments: HL ZZ SG FC JMK SKD. Analyzed the data: HL ZZ SG JMK YMW SKD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL JMK YMW SKD. Wrote the paper: HL JMK SKD.