About the Authors

Kellen D. Winden

Contributed equally to this work with: Kellen D. Winden, Stanislav L. Karsten

Affiliations Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Program in Neurogenetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stanislav L. Karsten

Contributed equally to this work with: Kellen D. Winden, Stanislav L. Karsten

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Neuroscience Research, Department of Neurology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Anatol Bragin

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, The Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lili C. Kudo

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, NeuroIndx Inc., Signal Hill, California, United States of America

Lauren Gehman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Josephine Ruidera

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Daniel H. Geschwind

dhg@ucla.edu (DHG); engel@ucla.edu (JE)

Affiliations Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Program in Neurogenetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jerome Engel Jr.

dhg@ucla.edu (DHG); engel@ucla.edu (JE)

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, The Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: LK is the President/CEO of NeuroInDx Inc. The authors have read and agree to adhere to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. The authors agree to make freely available any materials and information described in this publication that are reasonably requested by others for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KDW SLK AB DHG JE. Performed the experiments: KDW SLK AB LCK LG JR. Analyzed the data: KDW SLK AB. Wrote the paper: KDW SLK AB DHG JE.