About the Authors

Alice Frigerio

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Frigerio, Karol Wright

alice_frigerio@meei.harvard.edu

Affiliation Carolyn and Peter Lynch Center for Laser and Reconstructive Surgery, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otology and Laryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Karol Wright

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Frigerio, Karol Wright

Affiliation ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Whitney Wooderchak-Donahue

Affiliations ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Oon T. Tan

Affiliation Carolyn and Peter Lynch Center for Laser and Reconstructive Surgery, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otology and Laryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Rebecca Margraf

Affiliation ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

David A. Stevenson

Affiliation Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

J. Fredrik Grimmer

Affiliation Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir

Affiliations ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF KW WWD OTT DS JFG PBT. Performed the experiments: AF KW WWD. Analyzed the data: AF KW WWD RM PBT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WWD OOT PBT. Wrote the paper: AF KW WWD OOT DS JFG RM PBT.