About the Authors

Zhonghua Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhonghua Hu, Danni Yu

Affiliation Unit on Synapse Development and Plasticity, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Danni Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhonghua Hu, Danni Yu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Camila Almeida-Suhett

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kang Tu

Affiliation Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ann M. Marini

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lee Eiden

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maria F. Braga

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jun Zhu

Affiliation Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zheng Li

lizheng2@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Unit on Synapse Development and Plasticity, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH DY JZ ZL. Performed the experiments: ZH CA. Analyzed the data: ZH DY KT. Wrote the paper: ZH YD AMM LE MFB JZ ZL.