About the Authors

Dominique Helmlinger

¤ Current address: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France

Sara Hardy

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Hardy, Gretta Abou-Sleymane

Affiliation Department of Transcription, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France

Gretta Abou-Sleymane

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Hardy, Gretta Abou-Sleymane

Affiliations Department of Molecular Pathology, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France, Chaire de Génétique Humaine, Collège de France, Paris, France

Adrien Eberlin

Affiliation Department of Transcription, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France

Aaron B Bowman

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, and Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anne Gansmüller

Affiliation Imaging Technology Platform, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Strasbourg, France

Serge Picaud

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire de la Rétine, INSERM U-592, UPMC, Paris, France

Huda Y Zoghbi

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, and Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yvon Trottier

Affiliations Department of Molecular Pathology, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France, Chaire de Génétique Humaine, Collège de France, Paris, France

Làszlò Tora

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: devys@igbmc.u-strasbg.fr (LT), Email: laszlo@igbmc.u-strasbg.fr (DD)

Affiliation Department of Transcription, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France

Didier Devys

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: devys@igbmc.u-strasbg.fr (LT), Email: laszlo@igbmc.u-strasbg.fr (DD)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Pathology, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France, Department of Transcription, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DH, LT, and DD conceived and designed the experiments. DH, SH, GAS, AG, and DD performed the experiments. DH, LT, and DD analyzed the data. AE, ABB, SP, HYZ, and YT contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. DH, LT, and DD wrote the paper.