About the Authors

Ausra Milano

Current address: Optigen Inc., Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Sarah A. Pendergrass

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Jennifer L. Sargent

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Lacy K. George

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Timothy H. McCalmont

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

M. Kari Connolly

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Rheumatology), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael L. Whitfield

michael.whitfield@dartmouth.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM MKC MLW. Performed the experiments: AM JLS THM. Analyzed the data: AM SAP JLS LKG MKC MLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: THM MKC. Wrote the paper: AM SAP JLS LKG MKC MLW.