About the Authors

David Šmajs

dsmajs@med.muni.cz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Marie Zobaníková

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Michal Strouhal

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Darina Čejková

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Shannon Dugan-Rocha

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

Petra Pospíšilová

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Steven J. Norris

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tom Albert

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

Xiang Qin

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

Kym Hallsworth-Pepin

Affiliation The Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Christian Buhay

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

Donna M. Muzny

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

Lei Chen

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Richard A. Gibbs

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

George M. Weinstock

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Tom Albert was employed by the NimbleGen Systems, Inc., and performed microarray hybridization and data analysis with no impact on the interpretation of data. The authors adhered to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS GMW. Performed the experiments: DS MZ MS DC PP SD-R. Analyzed the data: TA DS MZ XQ CB LC KH-P DMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS GMW RAG SJN TA. Wrote the paper: DS SJN.