About the Authors

Farshad Tamari

Affiliations Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Fannie W. Chen

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Chunlei Li

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jagrutiben Chaudhari

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yiannis A. Ioannou

Yiannis.Ioannou@mssm.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 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: FT FWC YAI. Performed the experiments: FT FWC CL JC. Analyzed the data: FT FWC YAI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FT FWC JC YAI. Wrote the manuscript: FT FWC YAI.