About the Authors

Amanda Thomas

Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Thomas, Pei-Jung Lee, Justin E. Dalton

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

Pei-Jung Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Thomas, Pei-Jung Lee, Justin E. Dalton

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

Justin E. Dalton

Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Thomas, Pei-Jung Lee, Justin E. Dalton

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Krystle J. Nomie

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

Loredana Stoica

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mauro Costa-Mattioli

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter Chang

Affiliation Section of Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sergey Nuzhdin

Affiliation Section of Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michelle N. Arbeitman

michelle.arbeitman@med.fsu.edu (MNA); dierick@bcm.edu (HAD)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Herman A. Dierick

michelle.arbeitman@med.fsu.edu (MNA); dierick@bcm.edu (HAD)

Affiliations Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, 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: HAD MNA. Performed the experiments: AT PJL JD KJN LS HAD. Analyzed the data: AT PJL JD KJN LS MCM PC SN MNA HAD. Wrote the paper: AT MNA HAD.