About the Authors
- Hela Azaiez
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Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Amanda R. Decker
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Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda R. Decker, Kevin T. Booth, Allen C. Simpson
Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Kevin T. Booth
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Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda R. Decker, Kevin T. Booth, Allen C. Simpson
Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Allen C. Simpson
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Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda R. Decker, Kevin T. Booth, Allen C. Simpson
Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- A. Eliot Shearer
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Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Patrick L. M. Huygen
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Fengxiao Bu
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Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Michael S. Hildebrand
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Affiliation Austin Health, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Paul T. Ranum
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Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Seiji B. Shibata
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Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Ann Turner
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Affiliation Self-employed physician, Menlo Park, California, United States of America
- Yuzhou Zhang
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Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- William J. Kimberling
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Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Robert A. Cornell
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Richard J. H. Smith
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* E-mail: richard-smith@uiowa.edu
Affiliations Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Interdepartmental PhD Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HA ARD RAC RJHS. Performed the experiments: HA ARD KTB ACS AES FB MSH PTR SBS. Analyzed the data: HA ARD KTB ACS PLMH YZ RJHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT WJK. Wrote the paper: HA RJHS.