About the Authors

Joao Trindade Marques

jtm@ufmg.br (JTM); r-carthew@northwestern.edu (RWC)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ji-Ping Wang

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Karla Pollyanna Vieira de Oliveira

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Catherine Gao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Eric Roberto Guimaraes Rocha Aguiar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Nadereh Jafari

Affiliation Genomics Core, Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Richard W. Carthew

jtm@ufmg.br (JTM); r-carthew@northwestern.edu (RWC)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RWC JTM. Performed the experiments: JTM XW KPVO CG ERGRA. Analyzed the data: JTM XW KPVO JPW RWC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJ. Wrote the paper: JTM RWC.