About the Authors

Jeffrey L. Pitman

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Matthew C. Wheeler

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

David J. Lloyd

Current address: Amgen, Newbury Park, CA, United States of America

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, United States of America

John R. Walker

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Richard J. Glynne

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Nicholas Gekakis

ngekakis@mail.sdsu.edu

Affiliation Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLP MCW NG. Performed the experiments: JLP MCW NG. Analyzed the data: JLP MCW DJL JRW RJG NG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJL RJG. Wrote the paper: JLP NG.