About the Authors

Wu-Lin Charng

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shinya Yamamoto

Affiliations Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 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

Manish Jaiswal

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

Vafa Bayat

Affiliations Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Medical Scientist Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bo Xiong

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ke Zhang

Affiliation Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hector Sandoval

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Gabriela David

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stephen Gibbs

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hsiang-Chih Lu

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kuchuan Chen

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nikos Giagtzoglou

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hugo J. Bellen

hbellen@bcm.edu

Affiliations Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 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, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 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: WLC SY HJB. Performed the experiments: WLC SY MJ BX KZ HS GD SG HCL KC NG VB. Analyzed the data: WLC HJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SY KC NG. Wrote the paper: WLC HJB.