About the Authors

Yannick Romero

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Oliver Meikar

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Marilena D. Papaioannou

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Béatrice Conne

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Corinne Grey

Affiliation Institut de Génétique Humaine, IGH - CNRS, Montpellier, France

Manuela Weier

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

François Pralong

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Bernard De Massy

Affiliation Institut de Génétique Humaine, IGH - CNRS, Montpellier, France

Henrik Kaessmann

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jean-Dominique Vassalli

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Noora Kotaja

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Serge Nef

serge.nef@unige.ch

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YR JDV NK SN. Performed the experiments: YR OM MDP BC CG MW. Analyzed the data: YR OM MDP CG FP BdM JDV NK SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW FP HK. Wrote the paper: YR SN.