About the Authors

Wenxiao Jiang

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States of America, Graduate Program of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States of America

Wenjie Wei

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430032, China

Marta A. Gaertig

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States of America

Shihua Li

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States of America

Xiao-Jiang Li

xli2@emory.edu

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJ SL XL. Performed the experiments: WJ WW MG. Analyzed the data: WJ WW. Wrote the paper: WJ XL.