About the Authors

Martin F. Dietrich

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin F. Dietrich, Louise van der Weyden

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Louise van der Weyden

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin F. Dietrich, Louise van der Weyden

Affiliation Experimental Cancer Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambs, United Kingdom

Haydn M. Prosser

Affiliation Mouse Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambs, United Kingdom

Allan Bradley

Affiliation Mouse Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambs, United Kingdom

Joachim Herz

joachim.herz@utsouthwestern.edu (JH); da1@sanger.ac.uk (DJA)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

David J. Adams

joachim.herz@utsouthwestern.edu (JH); da1@sanger.ac.uk (DJA)

Affiliation Experimental Cancer Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambs, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFD LvdW HMP AB JH DJA. Performed the experiments: MFD LvdW HMP. Analyzed the data: MFD LvdW HMP AB JH DJA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HMP AB JH DJA. Wrote the paper: MFD JH.