About the Authors

Eugeny A. Elisaphenko

Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Department, Novosibirsk, Russia

Nikolay N. Kolesnikov

Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Department, Novosibirsk, Russia

Alexander I. Shevchenko

Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Department, Novosibirsk, Russia

Igor B. Rogozin

Affiliations Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Department, Novosibirsk, Russia, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tatyana B. Nesterova

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Neil Brockdorff

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Suren M. Zakian

zakian@bionet.nsc.ru

Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Department, Novosibirsk, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB SZ TN EE NK AS. Performed the experiments: EE. Analyzed the data: EE NK AS IR. Wrote the paper: NB SZ TN EE NK AS IR.