About the Authors

Chad J. Creighton

Contributed equally to this work with: Chad J. Creighton, Ashley L. Benham, Huifeng Zhu

Affiliations The Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ashley L. Benham

Contributed equally to this work with: Chad J. Creighton, Ashley L. Benham, Huifeng Zhu

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

Huifeng Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chad J. Creighton, Ashley L. Benham, Huifeng Zhu

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

Mahjabeen F. Khan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey G. Reid

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

Ankur K. Nagaraja

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael D. Fountain Jr

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Olivia Dziadek

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Derek Han

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lang Ma

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jong Kim

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

Shannon M. Hawkins

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Matthew L. Anderson

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Martin M. Matzuk

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Preethi H. Gunaratne

phgunaratne@uh.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN SH MA MMM PHG. Performed the experiments: AB HZ MK AN MF OD DH LM JK SH. Analyzed the data: CC AB HZ SH PHG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC HZ JR MA MMM PHG. Wrote the paper: CC AB HZ SH MA MMM PHG.