About the Authors

Tianhong Pan

tpan@bcm.edu

Affiliation Neurology Department, Parkinson Disease Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Julie Zhu

Affiliation Neurology Department, Parkinson Disease Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wen-Jen Hwu

Affiliation Melanoma Medical Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joseph Jankovic

Affiliations Neurology Department, Parkinson Disease Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorder Clinic, 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: TP JJ WJH. Performed the experiments: JZ TP. Analyzed the data: TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ TP. Wrote the paper: TP JJ WJH.