About the Authors

Gregory M. Buchold

Contributed equally to this work with: Gregory M. Buchold, Cristian Coarfa

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Cristian Coarfa

Contributed equally to this work with: Gregory M. Buchold, Cristian Coarfa

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jong Kim

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Aleksandar Milosavljevic

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Preethi H. Gunaratne

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Martin M. Matzuk

mmatzuk@tmc.bcm.edu

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMB CC JK AM PHG MMM. Performed the experiments: GMB CC JK. Analyzed the data: GMB CC JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC JK AM PHG. Wrote the paper: GMB MMM.