About the Authors

Michal Mielcarek

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Christian Landles

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Andreas Weiss

Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Neuroscience Discovery, Basel, Switzerland

Amyaouch Bradaia

Affiliation Neuroservice, Aix en Provence, France

Tamara Seredenina

Affiliation Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Linda Inuabasi

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Georgina F. Osborne

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Kristian Wadel

Affiliation Neuroservice, Aix en Provence, France

Chrystelle Touller

Affiliation Neuroservice, Aix en Provence, France

Rachel Butler

Current address: Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Janette Robertson

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Sophie A. Franklin

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Donna L. Smith

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Larry Park

Affiliation CHDI Management Inc./CHDI Foundation, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Paul A. Marks

Affiliation Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Erich E. Wanker

Affiliation Neuroproteomics, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Eric N. Olson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Southwestern University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Ruth Luthi-Carter

Affiliation Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Herman van der Putten

Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Neuroscience Discovery, Basel, Switzerland

Vahri Beaumont

Affiliation CHDI Management Inc./CHDI Foundation, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gillian P. Bates

gillian.bates@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Andreas Weiss and Herman van der Putten are employees of Novartis AG and potentially own shares in the company. Neuroservice conducted the research through a fee-for-service agreement for the CHDI Foundation. Larry Park and Vahri Beaumont are employed by CHDI Management Inc. to provide consulting services to CHDI Foundation. Amyaouch Bradaia, Kristian Wadel, and Chrystelle Touller are employees of Neuroservice. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. We fully adhere to all the PLoS Biology policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: MM HvdP VB GPB. Performed the experiments: MM CL AW AB TS LI GFO KW CT RB JR SAF DLS RLC. Analyzed the data: MM CL AW AB TS LP RLC HvdP VB GPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PAM EEW ENO HvdP. Wrote the paper: MM VB GPB.