About the Authors

Stefan Fürtinger

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Fürtinger, Joel C. Zinn

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Joel C. Zinn

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Fürtinger, Joel C. Zinn

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Kristina Simonyan

kristina.simonyan@mssm.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS SF. Performed the experiments: SF JCZ KS. Analyzed the data: SF JCZ KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF JCZ. Wrote the paper: SF JCZ KS.