About the Authors

Lihua Zheng

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yehudit Michelson

Affiliation Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Vita Freger

Affiliation Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Ziva Avraham

Affiliation Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Koen J. T. Venken

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hugo J. Bellen

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Developmental Biology, Department of Neuroscience, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Monica J. Justice

ronwides@yahoo.com (RW); mjustice@bcm.edu (MJJ)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ron Wides

ronwides@yahoo.com (RW); mjustice@bcm.edu (MJJ)

Affiliation Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ YM VF ZA KJTV HJB MJJ RW. Performed the experiments: LZ YM VF ZA KJTV RW. Analyzed the data: LZ YM VF ZA KJTV HJB MJJ RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ YM VF ZA KJTV HJB MJJ RW. Wrote the paper: LZ HJB MJJ RW.