About the Authors

Guangcheng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangcheng Zhang, Amir H. Assadi, Gary D. Clark, Gabriella D'Arcangelo

Affiliations The Cain Foundation Laboratories, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Amir H. Assadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangcheng Zhang, Amir H. Assadi, Gary D. Clark, Gabriella D'Arcangelo

Affiliations The Cain Foundation Laboratories, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Robert S. McNeil

Affiliations The Cain Foundation Laboratories, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Uwe Beffert

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Anthony Wynshaw-Boris

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

Joachim Herz

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Gary D. Clark

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangcheng Zhang, Amir H. Assadi, Gary D. Clark, Gabriella D'Arcangelo

Affiliations The Cain Foundation Laboratories, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Gabriella D'Arcangelo

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangcheng Zhang, Amir H. Assadi, Gary D. Clark, Gabriella D'Arcangelo

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gangelo@bcm.tmc.edu

Affiliations The Cain Foundation Laboratories, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC GD. Performed the experiments: GZ AA UB GZ. Analyzed the data: RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH AW AW. Wrote the paper: GD.