About the Authors

Matthew Slattery

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Lijia Ma

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nicolas Négre

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kevin P. White

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Richard S. Mann

rsm10@columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS KPW RSM. Performed the experiments: MS NN. Analyzed the data: MS LM NN RSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM NN. Wrote the paper: MS KPW RSM.