About the Authors

Rena C. Baek

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marike L. D. Broekman

Affiliations Program in Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Anatomy, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Stanley G. Leroy

Affiliation Program in Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laryssa A. Tierney

Affiliation Program in Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael A. Sandberg

Affiliation Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degenerations, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alessandra d'Azzo

Affiliation Department of Genetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Thomas N. Seyfried

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Miguel Sena-Esteves

Miguel.Esteves@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Program in Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCB MLDB TS MSE. Performed the experiments: RCB MLDB SGL LAT MAS MSE. Analyzed the data: RCB MLDB SGL MAS TS MSE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AdA. Wrote the paper: RCB MLDB MSE.