About the Authors

Ian M. Campbell

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

Mitchell Rao

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

Sean D. Arredondo

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Seema R. Lalani

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zhilian Xia

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

Sung-Hae L. Kang

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

Weimin Bi

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

Amy M. Breman

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

Janice L. Smith

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

Carlos A. Bacino

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Arthur L. Beaudet

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ankita Patel

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

Sau Wai Cheung

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

James R. Lupski

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Paweł Stankiewicz

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

Melissa B. Ramocki

Affiliations Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chad A. Shaw

cashaw@bcm.edu

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

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts to declare: the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine derives revenue from molecular diagnostic testing, including aCGH. JRL is a consultant for Athena Diagnostics, 23andMe, Ion Torrent Systems Inc., and holds multiple US and European patents for DNA diagnostics. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IMC CAS. Performed the experiments: IMC CAS. Analyzed the data: MR SDA ZX MBR SRL SHLK WB AMB JLS CAB ALB AP SWC PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR. Wrote the paper: IMC JRL PS MBR CAS.