About the Authors

C. Alexander Valencia

Contributed equally to this work with: C. Alexander Valencia, Arunkanth Ankala

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati Medical School, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Arunkanth Ankala

Contributed equally to this work with: C. Alexander Valencia, Arunkanth Ankala

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Devin Rhodenizer

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Shruti Bhide

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Martin Robert Littlejohn

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lisa Mari Keong

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Anne Rutkowski

Affiliation Cure CMD and Kaiser SCPMG, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Susan Sparks

Affiliation Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Carsten Bonnemann

Affiliation Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section, Neurogenetics Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Madhuri Hegde

mhegde@emory.edu

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAV DR SB MH. Performed the experiments: CAV DR AA SB MRL LMK. Analyzed the data: CAV AA DR SB MRL LMK MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAV AR CB SS MH. Wrote the paper: CAV AA MH.