About the Authors

Hiroshi Haeno

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Yosef E. Maruvka

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yoh Iwasa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoh Iwasa, Franziska Michor

yohiwasa@kyudai.jp (YI); michor@jimmy.harvard.edu (FM)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Franziska Michor

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoh Iwasa, Franziska Michor

yohiwasa@kyudai.jp (YI); michor@jimmy.harvard.edu (FM)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH YI FM. Performed the experiments: HH YEM YI FM. Analyzed the data: HH YEM YI FM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH YEM YI FM. Wrote the paper: HH YEM YI FM.