About the Authors

Xiaolin Zhu

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

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Raghavendra Padmanabhan

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Brett Copeland

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Joshua Bridgers

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Zhong Ren

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Sitharthan Kamalakaran

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Ailbhe O'Driscoll-Collins

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland

Samuel F. Berkovic

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epilepsy Research Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne at Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia

Ingrid E. Scheffer

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Epilepsy Research Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne at Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia, Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Australia, Departments of Paediatrics and Neurology, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Annapurna Poduri

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epilepsy Genetics Program and Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Davide Mei

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric Neurology Unit and Laboratories, Meyer Children’s Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Renzo Guerrini

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Pediatric Neurology Unit and Laboratories, Meyer Children’s Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy

Daniel H. Lowenstein

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Andrew S. Allen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Erin L. Heinzen

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin L. Heinzen, David B. Goldstein

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

David B. Goldstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin L. Heinzen, David B. Goldstein

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dg2875@cumc.columbia.edu

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DBG is a founder and holds equity in Pairnomix and Praxis, serves as a consultant to AstraZeneca, and has research supported by Janssen, Gilead, Biogen, and UCB. IES has served on scientific advisory boards for UCB, Eisai, GlaxoSmithKline, Biomarin and Nutricia; editorial boards of the Annals of Neurology, Neurology and Epileptic Disorders; may accrue future revenue on pending patent WO61/010176 (filed: 2008): Therapeutic Compound; has received speaker honoraria from GlaxoSmithKline, Athena Diagnostics, UCB, Eisai and Transgenomics; has received funding for travel from Athena Diagnostics, UCB, Biocodex, GlaxoSmithKline, and Eisai; and receives/has received research support from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, National Institutes of Health, Australian Research Council, Health Research Council of New Zealand, CURE, American Epilepsy Society, US Department of Defense Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program, March of Dimes, and Perpetual Charitable Trustees.