About the Authors

Xavier Rios

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adrian W. Briggs

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Danos Christodoulou

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Josh M. Gorham

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan G. Seidman

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

George M. Church

gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XR GMC. Performed the experiments: XR AWB JMG. Analyzed the data: XR GMC DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC JGS. Wrote the paper: XR AWB. Constructed RNAseq libraries: JMG. RNAseq computational analysis: DC.