About the Authors

Lihua Tan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Paul Schedl

pschedl@princeton.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Ho-Juhn Song

Affiliation Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dan Garza

Affiliation Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mary Konsolaki

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

Funding for the research (in the form of part time support for Lihua Tan) was provided by Novartis. This funding terminated in 2006. Novartis had no role in the experimental design, in analyzing the data, or in the preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LT PS MK. Performed the experiments: LT HJS. Analyzed the data: LT PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG MK. Wrote the paper: LT PS. Consulted-shared data: HJS DG MK.