About the Authors

Sherif Elnagdy

sh.elnagdy@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Botany Department, Faculty of Sciences, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Susan Messing

Affiliation Division of Psychiatric Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Michael E. N. Majerus

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors hereby declare that they received funding from a commercial source (BP Egypt) to conduct this study and they do confirm that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SME MEM. Performed the experiments: SME. Analyzed the data: SME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SME MEM. Wrote the paper: SME SM MEM.