About the Authors

Dong-Seol Lee

Affiliation Department of Oral Histology-Developmental Biology and Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Won-Joon Yoon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, BK21 Project, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Eui Sic Cho

Affiliation Laboratory for Craniofacial Biology, Institute of Oral Bioscience, Chonbuk National University, Jeon-ju, Korea

Heung-Joong Kim

Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Developmental Biology, College of Dentistry, Chosun University, Gwang-ju, Korea

Richard M. Gronostajski

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Program in Neuroscience, Developmental Genomics Group and Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Moon-Il Cho

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Joo-Cheol Park

jcapark@snu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Oral Histology-Developmental Biology and Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DSL WJY JCP. Performed the experiments: DSL ESC JCP. Analyzed the data: DSL JCP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJK RMG MIC. Wrote the paper: DSL JCP.