About the Authors

Asli Sirmaci

Affiliations John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Dr. John T. Macdonald Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Yvonne J. K. Edwards

Affiliations John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Dr. John T. Macdonald Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Hatice Akay

Affiliation Radiodiagnostics Unit, Veni Vidi Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey

Mustafa Tekin

mtekin@med.miami.edu

Affiliations John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Dr. John T. Macdonald Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Division of Pediatric Genetics, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA MT. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: YJKE MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS YJKE MT. Wrote the paper: AS YJKE MT.