About the Authors

Xu Zhang

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Benjamin E. Ramirez

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiubei Liao

tomdkw@uic.edu (TD); xiubei@uic.edu (XL)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Thomas G. H. Diekwisch

tomdkw@uic.edu (TD); xiubei@uic.edu (XL)

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TD XL. Performed the experiments: XZ BR. Analyzed the data: XZ XL TD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ XL TD. Wrote the paper: XZ XL TD.