About the Authors

Keir M. Balla

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Erik C. Andersen

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

Leonid Kruglyak

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Department of Biological Chemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Emily R. Troemel

etroemel@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMB ERT. Performed the experiments: KMB. Analyzed the data: KMB ECA LK ERT. Wrote the paper: KMB ERT.