About the Authors

David Brawand

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Walter Wahli

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: walter.wahli@unil.ch (WW); henrik.kaessmann@unil.ch (HK)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland , National Research Center Frontiers in Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Henrik Kaessmann

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: walter.wahli@unil.ch (WW); henrik.kaessmann@unil.ch (HK)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

WW proposed the study, and DB, WW, and HK conceived it. DB and HK designed the analyses. DB performed and HK guided the analyses. DB, WW, and HK cowrote the manuscript.