About the Authors

Fernando Faunes

Affiliation Center for Aging and Regeneration and Millennium Nucleus in Regenerative Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Natalia Sanchez

Affiliation Center for Aging and Regeneration and Millennium Nucleus in Regenerative Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Mauricio Moreno

Affiliation Center for Aging and Regeneration and Millennium Nucleus in Regenerative Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Gonzalo H. Olivares

Affiliation Center for Aging and Regeneration and Millennium Nucleus in Regenerative Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Dasfne Lee-Liu

Affiliations Center for Aging and Regeneration and Millennium Nucleus in Regenerative Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile, Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Leonardo Almonacid

Affiliations Molecular Bioinformatics Laboratory, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotheraphy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Alex W. Slater

Affiliations Molecular Bioinformatics Laboratory, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotheraphy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Tomas Norambuena

Affiliations Molecular Bioinformatics Laboratory, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotheraphy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Ryan J. Taft

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

John S. Mattick

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Francisco Melo

Affiliations Molecular Bioinformatics Laboratory, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotheraphy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Juan Larrain

jlarrain@bio.puc.cl

Affiliation Center for Aging and Regeneration and Millennium Nucleus in Regenerative Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Santiago, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: FF. Designed and performed most of the experiments: FF. In situ hybridization and PCR: NS. Q-PCR and help with cloning: MM GO DL-L. Bioinformatics analysis: AS TN FM. Deep sequencing: RT JM. Experimental design and paper preparation: FM JL.