About the Authors

Michael D. Brooks

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Erin Jackson

Affiliations BRIGHT Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Molecular Imaging Center, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nicole M. Warrington

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jingqin Luo

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jason T. Forys

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sara Taylor

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Diane D. Mao

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jeffrey R. Leonard

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Albert H. Kim

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David Piwnica-Worms

Affiliations BRIGHT Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Molecular Imaging Center, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Robi D. Mitra

Contributed equally to this work with: Robi D. Mitra, Joshua B. Rubin

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Joshua B. Rubin

Contributed equally to this work with: Robi D. Mitra, Joshua B. Rubin

rubin_j@kids.wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDB RDM JBR. Performed the experiments: MDB EJ NMW JTF JL. Analyzed the data: MDB EJ JL JTF DPW RDM JBR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST DDM JRL AHK. Wrote the paper: MDB RDM JBR.