About the Authors

Michael F. Wangler

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tomasz Gambin

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Samantha Penney

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Timothy Moss

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Atul Chopra

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Frank J. Probst

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fan Xia

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yaping Yang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Steven Werlin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ieva Eglite

Affiliation Children's Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia

Liene Kornejeva

Affiliation Children's Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia

Carlos A. Bacino

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dustin Baldridge

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeff Neul

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Efrat Lev Lehman

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Austin Larson

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado

Joke Beuten

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Donna M. Muzny

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shalini Jhangiani

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Baylor-Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics
Richard A. Gibbs

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

James R. Lupski

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Arthur Beaudet

abeaudet@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) offers extensive genetic laboratory testing, and BCM derives revenue from this activity. The Department offers chromosomal microarray analysis, whole-exome sequencing, and many other tests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB MFW DB TM ELL RAG JRL. Performed the experiments: CGJ MFW TM FX YY SJ DMM. Analyzed the data: MFW CGJ TG FX YY JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC FJP SW IE LK CAB DB JN AL SP. Wrote the paper: MFW CGJ TG RAG JRL AB.