About the Authors

Ichiro Yajima

Contributed equally to this work with: Ichiro Yajima, Sophie Colombo

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Sophie Colombo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ichiro Yajima, Sophie Colombo

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Isabel Puig

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Delphine Champeval

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Mayuko Kumasaka

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Elodie Belloir

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Jacky Bonaventure

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Manuel Mark

Affiliation Functional genomics and cancer, IGBMC, Illkirch, France

Hiroaki Yamamoto

Affiliation Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Nagahama University, Nagahama, Japan

Mark M. Taketo

Affiliation Department of pharmacology, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Philippe Choquet

Affiliation Institut de Mécanique des Fluides et Solides, University of Strasbourg – CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Heather C. Etchevers

Affiliations Medical Genetics and Functional Genomics, INSERM – UMR_S910, Marseille, France, Aix Marseille University, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France

Friedrich Beermann

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Véronique Delmas

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Laurent Monassier

Affiliation Laboratoire de Neurobiologie et Pharmacologie Cardiovasculaire – EA4438, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France

Lionel Larue

lionel.larue@curie.fr

Affiliations Developmental Genetics of Melanocytes, Institut Curie, Orsay, France, UMR_3347, CNRS, Orsay, France, U1021, INSERM, Orsay, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IY SC LM LL. Performed the experiments: IY SC IP DC MK EB JB MM PC FB VD LM. Analyzed the data: IY SC LM LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY MT. Wrote the paper: LM HCE LL.