About the Authors

Elena Makareeva

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Makareeva, Guoli Sun

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Guoli Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Makareeva, Guoli Sun

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lynn S. Mirigian

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Edward L. Mertz

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Juan C. Vera

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nydea A. Espinoza

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kathleen Yang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Diana Chen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Teri E. Klein

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Peter H. Byers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sergey Leikin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

leikins@mail.nih.gov

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.