About the Authors

Barbara Jusiak

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Abuduaini Abulimiti

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nele Haelterman

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rui Chen

Affiliations Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Graeme Mardon

gmardon@bcm.edu

Affiliations Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, 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: BJ GM. Performed the experiments: BJ NH GM. Analyzed the data: BJ NH RC GM RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJ AA. Wrote the paper: BJ GM.