About the Authors

Francis M. Kobia

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis M. Kobia, Kristina Preusse

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Current address: Mount Kenya University, Department of Research and Innovation, Thika, Kenya

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Kristina Preusse

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis M. Kobia, Kristina Preusse

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Quanhui Dai

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Nicholas Weaver

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Immunology Graduate Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Matthew R. Hass

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Praneet Chaturvedi

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Sarah J. Stein

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Warren S. Pear

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhenyu Yuan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Rhett A. Kovall

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yi Kuang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Natanel Eafergen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

David Sprinzak

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Brian Gebelein

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Eric W. Brunskill

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Raphael Kopan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Raphael.Kopan@CCHMC.ORG

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.