About the Authors

Benjamin W. Darbro

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin W. Darbro, Rohini Singh

benjamin-darbro@uiowa.edu (BD); alexander-bassuk@uiowa.edu (AB)

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Rohini Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin W. Darbro, Rohini Singh

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

M. Bridget Zimmerman

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Vinit B. Mahajan

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Alexander G. Bassuk

benjamin-darbro@uiowa.edu (BD); alexander-bassuk@uiowa.edu (AB)

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, University of Iowa eHealth and eNovation Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS BD BZ AB. Performed the experiments: BD RS BZ. Analyzed the data: RS BD BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB BZ RS BD. Wrote the paper: RS BD AB BZ VM.