About the Authors

Cecile Martinat

Contributed equally to this work with: Cecile Martinat, Shoshana Shendelman, Alan Jonason

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, and Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Shoshana Shendelman

Contributed equally to this work with: Cecile Martinat, Shoshana Shendelman, Alan Jonason

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, and Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Alan Jonason

Contributed equally to this work with: Cecile Martinat, Shoshana Shendelman, Alan Jonason

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, and Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas Leete

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, and Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

M. Flint Beal

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Lichuan Yang

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas Floss

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Asa Abeliovich

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: aa900@columbia.edu

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, and Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

CM, SS, and AA conceived and designed the experiments. CM, SS, AJ, TL, and AA performed the experiments. CM, SS, AJ, and AA analyzed the data. CM, SS, AJ, MFB, LY, TF, and AA contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CM, SS, and AA wrote the paper.