About the Authors

Yuanhao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Leahana Rowehl

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Julia M. Krumsiek

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Erika P. Orner

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Nurmohammad Shaikh

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

Phillip I. Tarr

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Erica Sodergren

Current Address: Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation The Genome Institute, Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

George M. Weinstock

Current Address: Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation The Genome Institute, Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Edgar C. Boedeker

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Xuejian Xiong

Affiliation Program in Molecular Structure and Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

John Parkinson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Daniel N. Frank

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Ellen Li

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Grace Gathungu

grace.gathungu@stonybrookmedicine.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ PT EB JP DF EL GG. Performed the experiments: YZ LR JFK EO NS PT ES GW EB XX JP DF EL GG. Analyzed the data: YZ LR JFK EO NS PT ES GW EB XX JP DF EL GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ EO NS PT ES GW EB XX JP DF EL GG. Wrote the paper: YZ LR JFK EO NS PT ES GW EB XX JP DF EL GG.