About the Authors

Charles E. Niesen

Current address: AMS Neurology Incorporated, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jun Xu

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xuemo Fan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiaojin Li

Affiliation Functional Genomics Core & Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Christopher J. Wheeler

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Adam N. Mamelak

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Charles Wang

cwang@coh.org

Affiliations David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Functional Genomics Core & Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Reviewed manuscript: CW CJW CEN ANM XF. Conceived and designed the experiments: CW CEN. Performed the experiments: JX XF XL. Analyzed the data: JX CW XL CJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW CEN. Wrote the paper: CW JX.