About the Authors

Anna Pivovarciova

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

anna.pivovarciova@gmail.com

Affiliation Academic Research Center for Autism, Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Jaroslava Durdiakova

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

Affiliation Academic Research Center for Autism, Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Katarina Babinska

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

Affiliation Academic Research Center for Autism, Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Aneta Kubranska

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

Affiliation Academic Research Center for Autism, Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Lenka Vokalova

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

Affiliation Academic Research Center for Autism, Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Gabriel Minarik

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Peter Celec

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Marianna Murin

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Social Communication Disorders Clinic, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United Kingdom

Daniela Ostatnikova

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Pivovarciova, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Katarina Babinska, Aneta Kubranska, Lenka Vokalova, Gabriel Minarik, Peter Celec, Marianna Murin, Daniela Ostatnikova

Affiliation Academic Research Center for Autism, Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP JD KB DO. Performed the experiments: AP AK KB JD LV GM MM. Analyzed the data: AP JD PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD LV GM. Wrote the paper: AP JD PC DO.