About the Authors

Cheol Lee

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

Jingqiong Hu

Current address: Stem Cell Center, Wuhan Union Hospital, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell and Neuro-Vascular Biology, Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sherry Ralls

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

Toshio Kitamura

Affiliation Division of Cellular Therapy, Advanced Clinical Research Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Y. Peng Loh

Affiliation Section on Cellular Neurobiology, Program on Developmental Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yanqin Yang

Affiliation DNA Sequencing and Genomics Core Facility, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yoh-suke Mukouyama

mukoyamay@nhlbi.nih.gov (YM); ahnsohyun@mail.nih.gov (SA)

Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell and Neuro-Vascular Biology, Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sohyun Ahn

mukoyamay@nhlbi.nih.gov (YM); ahnsohyun@mail.nih.gov (SA)

Affiliation Program in Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver 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: CL JH YM SA. Performed the experiments: CL JH SR. Analyzed the data: CL YY YM SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK YPL. Wrote the paper: CL SA. Critical discussions: YPL.