About the Authors

Peili Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Peili Gu, Jeffrey G. Reid, Jonathan N. Miller, Austin J. Cooney

Affiliations Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cancer Genetics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas , Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey G. Reid

Contributed equally to this work with: Peili Gu, Jeffrey G. Reid, Jonathan N. Miller, Austin J. Cooney

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, W. M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaolian Gao

Affiliations Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chad A. Shaw

Affiliation Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chad Creighton

Affiliation Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter L. Tran

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaochuan Zhou

Affiliation LC Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rafal B. Drabek

Affiliations Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David L. Steffen

Affiliations Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Bioinformatics Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David M. Hoang

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michelle K. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Arash O. Naghavi

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jad El-daye

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mahjabeen F. Khan

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Glen B. Legge

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David A. Wheeler

Affiliation Department of Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard A. Gibbs

Affiliation Department of Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jonathan N. Miller

Contributed equally to this work with: Peili Gu, Jeffrey G. Reid, Jonathan N. Miller, Austin J. Cooney

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Austin J. Cooney

Contributed equally to this work with: Peili Gu, Jeffrey G. Reid, Jonathan N. Miller, Austin J. Cooney

Affiliation Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Preethi H. Gunaratne

phgunaratne@uh.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR CS AC PG DS. Performed the experiments: PG XZ. Analyzed the data: RG DW JR JM CS CC PG PG XG PT XZ RD DS DH MW AN JE GL MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC PG XG. Wrote the paper: PG.