Article Information
- Received June 27, 2013
- Revision received July 31, 2013
- Accepted August 5, 2013
- First published September 18, 2013.
- Version of record published September 18, 2013.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: H.-Y.C., Y.M.Y., and M.N. designed research; H.-Y.C., Y.M.Y., and R.H. performed research; H.-Y.C., Y.M.Y., and M.N. analyzed data; H.-Y.C. and M.N. wrote the paper.
↵*H.-Y.C. and Y.M.Y. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received June 27, 2013.
- Revision received July 31, 2013.
- Accepted August 5, 2013.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (CA131385), the Department of Defense (W81XWH-07-1-060), the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Foundation, and the Carlson Stem Cell Fund. We thank Christoph Pröschel, Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Helene McMurray, Brett Stevens, and Craig Jordan for multiple helpful suggestions and critical discussions. We are also grateful to members of the Department of Biostatistics, in particular Olivier Hyrrien, for advice on all statistical analyses.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Mark Noble, Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, 575 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, New York 14642. mark_noble{at}urmc.rochester.edu