About the Authors

Bin Xu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Naomi Wratten

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Erik I Charych

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Steven Buyske

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Bonnie L Firestein

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Linda M Brzustowicz

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: brzustowicz@biology.rutgers.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BX, NW, EIC, BLF, and LMB designed the study. BX, NW, and EIC performed experiments. BX, SB, and LMB analyzed the data. BX, NW, EIC, SB, BLF, and LMB contributed to writing the paper.