About the Authors

Maria E. Figueroa

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria E. Figueroa, Mark Reimers

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Mark Reimers

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria E. Figueroa, Mark Reimers

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Reid F. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Kenny Ye

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Yushan Li

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Rebecca R. Selzer

Affiliation Roche NimbleGen, Inc. Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jakob Fridriksson

Affiliation Roche NimbleGen, Inc. Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Elisabeth Paietta

Affiliation Our Lady of Mercy Comprehensive Cancer Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Peter Wiernik

Affiliation Our Lady of Mercy Comprehensive Cancer Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Roland D. Green

Affiliation Roche NimbleGen, Inc. Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

John M. Greally

jgreally@aecom.yu.edu (JG); amelnick@aecom.yu.edu (AM)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ari Melnick

jgreally@aecom.yu.edu (JG); amelnick@aecom.yu.edu (AM)

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG AM MF. Performed the experiments: RS MF YL JF. Analyzed the data: JG KY AM MF MR RT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG RS KY RG MR RT JF EP PW. Wrote the paper: JG RS KY RG AM MF MR RT YL JF EP PW.