About the Authors

Lance B. Price

lprice@tgen.org

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Cindy M. Liu

Affiliations Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Johan H. Melendez

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yelena M. Frankel

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David Engelthaler

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Maliha Aziz

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jolene Bowers

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Rogan Rattray

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jacques Ravel

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chris Kingsley

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul S. Keim

Affiliations Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Gerald S. Lazarus

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan M. Zenilman

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LBP CML JHM YMF DME JRB PK GL JZ. Performed the experiments: CML JHM YMF JRB RR JR. Analyzed the data: LBP CML JHM YMF DME MA JRB RR CK PK GL JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LBP DME MA JR CK PK GL JZ. Wrote the paper: LBP CML PK JZ. Edited the manuscript: JHM YMF DME. Contributed text to the final manuscript: MA JRB RR JR CK. Performed statistical analysis: CK. Critically reviewed the manuscript: GL.