About the Authors

Ting Ni

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Ni, Kang Tu

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Genetics and Development Biology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kang Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Ni, Kang Tu

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Genetics and Development Biology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zhong Wang

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Shen Song

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Han Wu

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Genetics and Development Biology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bin Xie

Affiliation Division of Genomics, Epigenomics and Bioinformatics, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kristin C. Scott

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Shiv I. Grewal

Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yuan Gao

Affiliations Division of Genomics, Epigenomics and Bioinformatics, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Neuroregeneration and Stem Cell Biology Program, Institute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jun Zhu

jun.zhu@nih.gov

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Genetics and Development Biology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN JZ. Performed the experiments: TN SS HW BX. Analyzed the data: KT ZW YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCS SIG. Wrote the paper: TN KT JZ.