About the Authors

Akira Nishiyama

Affiliations Program in Genomics of Differentiation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Section on Developmental Genomics and Aging, Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anup Dey

Affiliation Program in Genomics of Differentiation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tomohiko Tamura

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Minoru Ko

Affiliation Section on Developmental Genomics and Aging, Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Keiko Ozato

ozatok@nih.gov

Affiliation Program in Genomics of Differentiation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 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: AN KO. Performed the experiments: AN. Analyzed the data: AN AD TT KO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN AD MK TT KO. Wrote the paper: KO AN.