About the Authors

Tao Ren

Affiliation Genetics Department, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dario S Zamboni

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Craig R Roy

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

William F Dietrich

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dietrich@genetics.med.harvard.edu

Affiliation Genetics Department, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Russell E Vance

Affiliation Genetics Department, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

TR, DSZ, CRR, WFD, and REV conceived and designed the experiments. TR, DSZ, and REV performed the experiments. TR, DSZ, CRR, WFD, and REV analyzed the data. TR, DSZ, CRR, and REV contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. TR, WFD, and REV wrote the paper.