About the Authors

Dustin Baldridge

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jennifer Lennington

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

MaryAnn Weis

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Erica P. Homan

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ming-Ming Jiang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Elda Munivez

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Douglas R. Keene

Affiliation Shriners Hospitals for Children, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

William R. Hogue

Affiliation Center for Orthopaedic Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Shawna Pyott

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Peter H. Byers

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Deborah Krakow

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Daniel H. Cohn

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David R. Eyre

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Brendan Lee

blee@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Roy Morello

Current address: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB JL SP PHB DE BL RM. Performed the experiments: DB JL MW EPH MMJ EM DRK WH DE RM. Analyzed the data: DB JL MW EPH DRK WH DK DC DE BL RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK DC. Wrote the paper: DB MW PHB DE BL RM.