About the Authors

Ying Si

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Soojin Kim

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Xiangqin Cui

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lei Zheng

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Shin J. Oh

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Tina Anderson

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Mohammad AlSharabati

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Mohamed Kazamel

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Laura Volpicelli-Daley

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Marcas M. Bamman

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Shaohua Yu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Peter H. King

phking@uabmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PHK. Performed the experiments: YS SK LZ LV TA. Analyzed the data: XC MMB SY PHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJO MA MK MMB. Wrote the paper: PHK.