About the Authors

Shao-Yin Chen

Affiliations The Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yulei Wang

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

Marilyn J. Telen

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jen-Tsan Chi

chi00002@mc.duke.edu

Affiliations The Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT JC SC. Performed the experiments: JC SC. Analyzed the data: YW MT JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW. Wrote the paper: MT JC.