About the Authors

Courtney M. Karner

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney M. Karner, Martin F. Dietrich, Eric B. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Martin F. Dietrich

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney M. Karner, Martin F. Dietrich, Eric B. Johnson

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

Eric B. Johnson

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney M. Karner, Martin F. Dietrich, Eric B. Johnson

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

Natalie Kappesser

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

Christian Tennert

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

Ferda Percin

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

Bernd Wollnik

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC) and Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), Cologne, Germany

Thomas J. Carroll

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Joachim Herz

joachim.herz@utsouthwestern.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMK MFD EBJ TC JH. Performed the experiments: CMK MFD EBJ NK CT FP. Analyzed the data: CMK MFD EBJ TC JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMK EBJ NK CT FP BW TC JH. Wrote the paper: CMK MFD TC JH.