About the Authors

Bin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jufang Chang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ming Fu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jie Huang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rakesh Kashyap

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ezequiel Salavaggione

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sanjay Jain

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Renal Division), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, HOPE Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kulkarni Shashikant

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Matthew A. Deardorff

Affiliation Division of Human and Molecular Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Maria L. Giovannucci Uzielli

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

Dale Dorsett

Affiliation Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David C. Beebe

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Patrick Y. Jay

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Robert O. Heuckeroth

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, HOPE Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ian Krantz

Affiliation Division of Human and Molecular Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jeffrey Milbrandt

jmilbrandt@wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, HOPE Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZ JM. Performed the experiments: BZ JC MF JH RK. Analyzed the data: BZ ES SJ KS MAD DD DCB PYJ ROH IK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BZ MLGU IK. Wrote the paper: BZ JM.