About the Authors

Anne De Cian

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne De Cian, Elise Praly

Affiliation Maintenance des Génomes, Microscopies Moléculaires et Bionanosciences, UMR 8126 CNRS and Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France

Elise Praly

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne De Cian, Elise Praly

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, UMR 8550 CNRS, Paris, France

Fangyuan Ding

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, UMR 8550 CNRS, Paris, France

Vijender Singh

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Christophe Lavelle

Affiliation Genome Dynamics and Regulation, CNRS UMR 7196, INSERM U565, Paris, France

Eric Le Cam

Affiliation Maintenance des Génomes, Microscopies Moléculaires et Bionanosciences, UMR 8126 CNRS and Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France

Vincent Croquette

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, UMR 8550 CNRS, Paris, France

Olivier Piétrement

olivier.pietrement@igr.fr (OP); david@lps.ens.fr (DB)

Affiliation Maintenance des Génomes, Microscopies Moléculaires et Bionanosciences, UMR 8126 CNRS and Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France

David Bensimon

olivier.pietrement@igr.fr (OP); david@lps.ens.fr (DB)

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, UMR 8550 CNRS, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADC EP ELC VC OP DB. Performed the experiments: ADC EP FD OP. Analyzed the data: ADC EP FD CL ELC VC OP DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADC EP FD VS. Wrote the paper: ADC EP ELC VC OP DB.