About the Authors

Allen Braun

brauna@nidcd.nih.gov

Affiliation Language Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joe McArdle

Affiliation Language Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer Jones

Affiliation Section on Systems Biology of Communication Disorders, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Vladimir Nechaev

Affiliation Language Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher Zalewski

Affiliation Audiology Unit, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carmen Brewer

Affiliation Audiology Unit, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dennis Drayna

Affiliation Section on Systems Biology of Communication Disorders, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB JM VN DD. Performed the experiments: JM JJ VN CZ CB. Analyzed the data: JM. Wrote the paper: AB JM DD.