About the Authors

Karen M. Vernau

kmvernau@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jonathan A. Runstadler

Current address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Emily A. Brown

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jessie M. Cameron

Affiliation Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Heather J. Huson

Affiliation University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Robert J. Higgins

Affiliation University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Cameron Ackerley

Affiliation Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Beverly K. Sturges

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Peter J. Dickinson

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Birgit Puschner

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Cecilia Giulivi

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

G. Diane Shelton

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Brian H. Robinson

Affiliation Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Salvatore DiMauro

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Andrew W. Bollen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Danika L. Bannasch

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KV JR DB PD HH. Performed the experiments: KV DB EB HH RJH SD CA JC CG BS AB. Analyzed the data: KV DB EB RJH SD CA JC CG BS AB BR BP GDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB GDS BR CA JC HH PD RH KV JR. Wrote the paper: DB GDS BR CA JC PD RH CG.