About the Authors

Georg Steffes

Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Steffes, Beatriz Lorente-Cánovas

Current address: Institute for Neurobiology, University of Münster, Germany

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Beatriz Lorente-Cánovas

Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Steffes, Beatriz Lorente-Cánovas

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s College London, United Kingdom

Selina Pearson

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Rachael H. Brooker

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Sarah Spiden

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Amy E. Kiernan

Affiliations MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, United Kingdom, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, New York, United States of America

Jean-Louis Guénet

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Karen P. Steel

Karen.Steel@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s College London, United Kingdom, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS BLC KPS. Performed the experiments: GS BLC SP RHB SS AEK JLG. Analyzed the data: GS BLC SP RHB SS AEK JLG KPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS BLC SP RHB SS AEK JLG. Wrote the paper: GS BLC SP RHB SS AEK JLG KPS.