About the Authors

Robert J. W. Heath

Affiliations Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Gastrointestinal Unit, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John M. Leong

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, UMass Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Balázs Visegrády

Affiliation Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Garscube Estate, Bearsden, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Laura M. Machesky

Affiliation Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Garscube Estate, Bearsden, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Ramnik J. Xavier

Xavier@molbiol.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Gastrointestinal Unit, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJWH JML RJX. Performed the experiments: RJWH. Analyzed the data: RJWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JML BV LMM. Wrote the paper: RJWH.