About the Authors

Anna Rajab

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Rajab, Volker Straub

Affiliation Genetics Unit, Ministry of Health, Directorate General of Health Affairs, Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman

Volker Straub

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Rajab, Volker Straub

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, International Center for Life, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Liza J. McCann

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Dominik Seelow

Affiliations Department of Neuropediatrics, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Raymonda Varon

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Rita Barresi

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, International Center for Life, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Anne Schulze

Affiliation Muscle Research Unit, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Barbara Lucke

Affiliations Department of Neuropediatrics, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Susanne Lützkendorf

Affiliations Department of Neuropediatrics, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Mohsen Karbasiyan

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Bachmann

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany, Core Facility for Electron Microscopy, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Simone Spuler

Affiliation Muscle Research Unit, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Markus Schuelke

markus.schuelke@charite.de

Affiliations Department of Neuropediatrics, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS RV RB SB SS MS. Performed the experiments: RB AS BL SL MK MS. Analyzed the data: VS DS RV RB AS BL SL SB SS MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR LJM DS MS. Wrote the paper: VS MS. Recruited patients and performed the patient investigations: AR VS LJM MS. Performed the bioinformatic analysis: DS.