About the Authors

Jean-Yves Métais

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Yves Métais, Thomas Winkler

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas Winkler

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Yves Métais, Thomas Winkler

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Julia T. Geyer

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Rodrigo T. Calado

Affiliations Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto Medical School, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Peter D. Aplan

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael A. Eckhaus

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cynthia E. Dunbar

dunbarc@nhlbi.nih.gov

Affiliation Hematology Branch, 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: JYM TW JTG RTC CED. Performed the experiments: JYM TW JTG MAE. Analyzed the data: JYM JTG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PDA. Wrote the paper: JYM CED.