About the Authors

Graciana Diez-Roux

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Sandro Banfi

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Marc Sultan

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Lars Geffers

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Santosh Anand

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

David Rozado

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Alon Magen

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Elena Canidio

Affiliation Primm, Milan, Italy

Massimiliano Pagani

Current address: Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare, Milan, Italy

Affiliation Primm, Milan, Italy

Ivana Peluso

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Nathalie Lin-Marq

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Muriel Koch

Affiliation Institut Clinique de la Souris, Illkirch, France

Marchesa Bilio

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Immacolata Cantiello

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Roberta Verde

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Cristian De Masi

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Salvatore A. Bianchi

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Juliette Cicchini

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Elodie Perroud

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Shprese Mehmeti

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Emilie Dagand

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Sabine Schrinner

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Asja Nürnberger

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Katja Schmidt

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Katja Metz

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Christina Zwingmann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Brieske

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Cindy Springer

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Ana Martinez Hernandez

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Sarah Herzog

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Frauke Grabbe

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Cornelia Sieverding

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Barbara Fischer

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Kathrin Schrader

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Maren Brockmeyer

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Sarah Dettmer

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Christin Helbig

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Violaine Alunni

Affiliation Institut Clinique de la Souris, Illkirch, France

Marie-Annick Battaini

Affiliation Institut Clinique de la Souris, Illkirch, France

Carole Mura

Affiliation Institut Clinique de la Souris, Illkirch, France

Charlotte N. Henrichsen

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Raquel Garcia-Lopez

Affiliation Experimental Embryology Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Diego Echevarria

Affiliation Experimental Embryology Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Eduardo Puelles

Affiliation Experimental Embryology Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Elena Garcia-Calero

Affiliation Experimental Embryology Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Stefan Kruse

Affiliation ORGARAT, Essen, Germany

Markus Uhr

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Christine Kauck

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Guangjie Feng

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Nestor Milyaev

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Chuang Kee Ong

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lalit Kumar

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

MeiSze Lam

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Colin A. Semple

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Attila Gyenesei

Current address: Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Stefan Mundlos

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Uwe Radelof

Current address: Scienion, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation RZPD—Deutsches Ressourcenzentrum für Genomforschung, Berlin, Germany

Hans Lehrach

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Paolo Sarmientos

Affiliation Primm, Milan, Italy

Alexandre Reymond

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Duncan R. Davidson

Duncan.Davidson@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (DRD); dolle@igbmc.fr (PD); stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); Yaspo@molgen.mpg.de (M-LY); smartinez@umh.es (SM); Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (RAB); Gregor.Eichele@mpibpc.mpg.de (GE); ballabio@tigem.it (AB)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Pascal Dollé

Duncan.Davidson@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (DRD); dolle@igbmc.fr (PD); stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); Yaspo@molgen.mpg.de (M-LY); smartinez@umh.es (SM); Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (RAB); Gregor.Eichele@mpibpc.mpg.de (GE); ballabio@tigem.it (AB)

Affiliation Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Inserm U 964, CNRS UMR 7104, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Strasbourg; Illkirch, France

Stylianos E. Antonarakis

Duncan.Davidson@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (DRD); dolle@igbmc.fr (PD); stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); Yaspo@molgen.mpg.de (M-LY); smartinez@umh.es (SM); Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (RAB); Gregor.Eichele@mpibpc.mpg.de (GE); ballabio@tigem.it (AB)

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Marie-Laure Yaspo

Duncan.Davidson@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (DRD); dolle@igbmc.fr (PD); stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); Yaspo@molgen.mpg.de (M-LY); smartinez@umh.es (SM); Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (RAB); Gregor.Eichele@mpibpc.mpg.de (GE); ballabio@tigem.it (AB)

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Salvador Martinez

Duncan.Davidson@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (DRD); dolle@igbmc.fr (PD); stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); Yaspo@molgen.mpg.de (M-LY); smartinez@umh.es (SM); Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (RAB); Gregor.Eichele@mpibpc.mpg.de (GE); ballabio@tigem.it (AB)

Affiliation Experimental Embryology Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Richard A. Baldock

Duncan.Davidson@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (DRD); dolle@igbmc.fr (PD); stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); Yaspo@molgen.mpg.de (M-LY); smartinez@umh.es (SM); Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (RAB); Gregor.Eichele@mpibpc.mpg.de (GE); ballabio@tigem.it (AB)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Gregor Eichele

Duncan.Davidson@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (DRD); dolle@igbmc.fr (PD); stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); Yaspo@molgen.mpg.de (M-LY); smartinez@umh.es (SM); Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (RAB); Gregor.Eichele@mpibpc.mpg.de (GE); ballabio@tigem.it (AB)

Affiliation Genes and Behavior Department, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Andrea Ballabio

Duncan.Davidson@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (DRD); dolle@igbmc.fr (PD); stylianos.antonarakis@unige.ch (SEA); Yaspo@molgen.mpg.de (M-LY); smartinez@umh.es (SM); Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk (RAB); Gregor.Eichele@mpibpc.mpg.de (GE); ballabio@tigem.it (AB)

Affiliations Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy, Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: G Diez-Roux, S Banfi, I Peluso, N Lin-Marq, M Koch, H Lehrach, P Sarmientos, A Reymond, DR Davidson, P Dollé, SE Antonarakis, M-L Yaspo, S Martinez, RA Baldock, G Eichele, A Ballabio. Performed the experiments: M Sultan, L Geffers, E Canidio, M Pagani, I Peluso, N Lin-Marq, M Koch, M Bilio, I Cantiello, R Verde, C De Masi, S Bianchi, E Perroud, S Mehmeti, E Dagand, S Schrinner, A Nrnberger, K Schmidt, K Metz, K Zwingmann, N Brieske, C Springer, A Martinez Hernandez, S Herzog, F Grabbe, C Sieverding, B Fischer, K Schrader, M Brockmeyer, S Dettmer, C Helbig, V Alunni, M-A Battaini, C Mura, CN Henrichsen, S Mundlos. Analyzed the data: G Diez-Roux, S Banfi, M Sultan, L Geffers, R Garcia-Lopez, D Echevarria, E Puelles, E Garcia-Calero, CAM Semple, SE Antonarakis. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S Anand, D Rozado, A Magen, S Kruse, M Uhr, C Kauck, G Feng, N Milyaev, CK Ong, L Kumar, M Lam, A Gyenesei, U Radelof. Wrote the paper: G Diez-Roux, S Banfi, DR Davidson, P Dollé, SE Antonarakis, M-L Yaspo, S Martinez, RA Baldock, G Eichele, A Ballabio.