About the Authors

Virginie Deleuze

Contributed equally to this work with: Virginie Deleuze, Rawan El-Hajj

Affiliations Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535 CNRS, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Rawan El-Hajj

Contributed equally to this work with: Virginie Deleuze, Rawan El-Hajj

Affiliations Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535 CNRS, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Elias Chalhoub

Current address: FHS-University of Balamand, Beirut, Lebanon

Affiliations Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535 CNRS, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Christiane Dohet

Affiliations Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535 CNRS, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Valérie Pinet

Affiliations Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535 CNRS, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Philippe Couttet

Current address: Investigative Toxicology, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research (NIBR), Basel, Switzerland

Affiliation The Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Danièle Mathieu

daniele.mathieu@igmm.cnrs.fr

Affiliations Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535 CNRS, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors received awards from ROCHE-SAS (France) for this study. This does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VD PC DM. Performed the experiments: VD REH CD EC PC VP. Analyzed the data: VD REH EC CD VP PC DM. Wrote the paper: VD DM.