About the Authors

Manish Jaiswal

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nele A. Haelterman

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hector Sandoval

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bo Xiong

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Taraka Donti

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America

Auinash Kalsotra

Current address: Departments of Biochemistry and Medical Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shinya Yamamoto

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), Houston, Texas, United States of America

Thomas A. Cooper

Affiliations Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Brett H. Graham

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hugo J. Bellen

hbellen@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJ HJB. Performed the experiments: MJ NAH HS BX TD AK. Analyzed the data: MJ NAH HS BX TD AK TAC BHG HJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJ. Wrote the paper: MJ HJB. Performed the genetic screen: MJ HS BX SY.