About the Authors

Mallikarjun Badadani

Contributed equally to this work with: Mallikarjun Badadani, Angèle Nalbandian, Giles D. Watts, Jouni Vesa

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Angèle Nalbandian

Contributed equally to this work with: Mallikarjun Badadani, Angèle Nalbandian, Giles D. Watts, Jouni Vesa

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Giles D. Watts

Contributed equally to this work with: Mallikarjun Badadani, Angèle Nalbandian, Giles D. Watts, Jouni Vesa

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Jouni Vesa

Contributed equally to this work with: Mallikarjun Badadani, Angèle Nalbandian, Giles D. Watts, Jouni Vesa

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Masashi Kitazawa

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Hailing Su

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jasmin Tanaja

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Eric Dec

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Douglas C. Wallace

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jogeshwar Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Vincent Caiozzo

Affiliation Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, and Orthopedics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Matthew Warman

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Virginia E. Kimonis

vkimonis@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB AN GW JV VC VEK. Performed the experiments: MB AN GW JV MK HS JT. Analyzed the data: MB AN GW JV MK HS JT ED DCW JM VC MLW VEK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB AN GW JV MK HS ED DCW JM VC MLW VEK. Wrote the paper: MB AN GW JV ED VEK.