About the Authors

Man Kit Cheung

Contributed equally to this work with: Man Kit Cheung, Wai Yip Lam, Wendy Yin Wan Fung

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Wai Yip Lam

Contributed equally to this work with: Man Kit Cheung, Wai Yip Lam, Wendy Yin Wan Fung

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Wendy Yin Wan Fung

Contributed equally to this work with: Man Kit Cheung, Wai Yip Lam, Wendy Yin Wan Fung

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Patrick Tik Wan Law

Affiliation Core Facilities Genome Sequencing Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Chun Hang Au

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Wenyan Nong

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Kai Man Kam

Affiliation Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR, China

Hoi Shan Kwan

hoishankwan@cuhk.edu.hk (HSK); kwtsui@cuhk.edu.hk (SKWT)

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Stephen Kwok Wing Tsui

hoishankwan@cuhk.edu.hk (HSK); kwtsui@cuhk.edu.hk (SKWT)

Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Hong Kong Bioinformatics Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WYWF HSK SKWT. Performed the experiments: WYWF PTWL. Analyzed the data: MKC WYL CHA WN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMK. Wrote the paper: MKC WYL.