About the Authors

Dimitrios Ioannou

Contributed equally to this work with: Dimitrios Ioannou, Helen G. Tempest

Affiliation Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Lakshmi Kandukuri

Current address: Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Hyderabad, India

Affiliation Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ameer Quadri

Affiliation Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Victor Becerra

Affiliation Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Joe Leigh Simpson

Affiliations Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, March of Dimes Foundation, White Plains, New York, United States of America

Helen G. Tempest

Contributed equally to this work with: Dimitrios Ioannou, Helen G. Tempest

htempest@fiu.edu

Affiliations Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Biomolecular Sciences Institute, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HGT DI JLS LK. Performed the experiments: DI AQ LK VB. Analyzed the data: DI AQ LK VB HGT. Wrote the paper: HGT DI JLS.