About the Authors

Rachel A. Patterson

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michelle T. Juarez

Affiliation Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Anita Hermann

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Roman Sasik

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gary Hardiman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

William McGinnis

wmcginnis@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed microarray experiment and statistical analysis: RS GH. Conceived and designed the experiments: RAP MTJ WM. Performed the experiments: RAP AH. Analyzed the data: RAP MTJ WM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTJ AH WM. Wrote the paper: RAP WM.