About the Authors

Xiaohui Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohui Yuan, Tuong Chi Ta

Current address: BPS Bioscience, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Drug Discovery, Gonda Diabetes Research Center, The Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Tuong Chi Ta

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohui Yuan, Tuong Chi Ta

Affiliation Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Min Lin

Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Drug Discovery, Gonda Diabetes Research Center, The Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jane R. Evans

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Yinchen Dong

Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Drug Discovery, Gonda Diabetes Research Center, The Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Eugene Bolotin

Affiliation Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Mark A. Sherman

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Barry M. Forman

bmforman@earthlink.net (BMF); frances.sladek@ucr.edu (FMS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Drug Discovery, Gonda Diabetes Research Center, The Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Frances M. Sladek

bmforman@earthlink.net (BMF); frances.sladek@ucr.edu (FMS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XY TCT BF FMS. Performed the experiments: XY TCT ML JRE YD FMS. Analyzed the data: XY TCT EB BF FMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAS. Wrote the paper: XY TCT BF FMS. Prepared the figures: TCT.