About the Authors

M. Febin Farook

Affiliation Department of Neurology, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael DeCuypere

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Keith Hyland

Affiliation Medical Neurogenetics, LCC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Toru Takumi

Affiliation Hiroshima University, School of Medicine, Hiroshima, Japan

Mark S. LeDoux

Affiliations Department of Neurology, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Lawrence T. Reiter

lreiter@uthsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Hyland is employed by Medical Neurogenetics, LCC in Atlanta, GA. His contributions to this manuscript were performed entirely for authorship and did not involve consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products of Medical Neurogenetics. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LTR MSL. Performed the experiments: MFF MD KH. Analyzed the data: MFF MD LTR MSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LTR MSL KH. Wrote the paper: MFF LTR MSL. Provided the 15q duplication mice prior publication: TT.