About the Authors

Li Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Taub Institute for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Valerie Drouet

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Taub Institute for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jessica W. Wu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Taub Institute for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Menno P. Witter

Affiliation Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Scott A. Small

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Taub Institute for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Catherine Clelland

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Taub Institute for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Karen Duff

ked2115@columbia.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Taub Institute for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD. Performed the experiments: LL VD JWW. Analyzed the data: LL VD CC MW SAS CC KD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC KD. Wrote the paper: KD SAS LL VD MW CC. Performed most of the technical aspects of the project: LL. Performed qRT-PCR experiments: VD. Assisted with LCM experiments: JWW. Contributed technical expertise for the qRT-PCR and LCM: CC.