About the Authors

Hilary Moffitt

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Graham D. McPhail

Affiliation Division of Cellular Pathology, Barts and the London NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Ben Woodman

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Carl Hobbs

Affiliation Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Kings College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Gillian P. Bates

gillian.bates@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The R6/2 mice are licensed by King's College London for commercial use

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM GPB. Performed the experiments: HM GDM. Analyzed the data: HM GDM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW CH. Wrote the paper: HM GPB.