About the Authors

Karen A. Ocorr

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen A. Ocorr, Timothy Crawley

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience and Aging, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Timothy Crawley

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen A. Ocorr, Timothy Crawley

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience and Aging, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Greg Gibson

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ggibson@unity.ncsu.edu (GG); rolf@burnham.org (RB)

Affiliation Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Rolf Bodmer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ggibson@unity.ncsu.edu (GG); rolf@burnham.org (RB)

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience and Aging, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG RB. Performed the experiments: KO TC. Analyzed the data: GG RB KO. Wrote the paper: GG RB.