About the Authors

Paige M. Siper

paige.siper@mssm.edu

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Vance Zemon

Affiliation Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

James Gordon

Affiliation Hunter College, New York, New York, United States of America

Julia George-Jones

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Stacey Lurie

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Jessica Zweifach

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Teresa Tavassoli

Affiliation Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, United Kingdom

A. Ting Wang

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Jesslyn Jamison

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Joseph D. Buxbaum

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America,9 Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Alexander Kolevzon

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America,9 Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America,9 Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Paige M. Siper received grant support from Autism Speaks (grant #8685), the NIH (MH107839), and the Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Foundation. Vance Zemon is a principal in VeriSci Corp. which has a financial agreement with Konan Medical USA. James Gordon receives consulting fees from VeriSci Corp. Stacey Lurie reports no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Julia George-Jones reports no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Jessica Zweifach reports no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Teresa Tavassoli received grant support from the Autism Science Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, the NIH (MH107839), and the Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Foundation. A. Ting Wang receives grant support from the NIH (MH107839). Jesslyn Jamison reports no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Joseph D. Buxbaum holds a shared patent with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for insulin-like growth factor-1 in the treatment of Phelan-McDermid syndrome and receives grant support from the NIH (MH107839). Alexander Kolevzon receives research support from NIMH (R34 MH100276-01;(R21 MH107839)), NINDS (U54 NS092090- 01), the Autism Science Foundation, the Seaver Foundation, Hoffmann-La Roche, and Neuren Pharmaceuticals and is a consultant for Vencerx Therapeutics, Fulcrum Therapeutics, Ovid Therapeutics, and Supernus Pharmceuticals. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PMS VZ JG JDB AK. Data curation: PMS JGJ SL JZ JJ. Formal analysis: PMS VZ JG. Funding acquisition: PMS JDB. Investigation: PMS JGJ SL JZ JJ. Methodology: PMS VZ JG. Project administration: PMS JGJ SL. Software: VZ JG. Supervision: PMS JDB AK. Validation: PMS JGJ SL JZ JJ. Visualization: PMS JGJ ATW AK. Writing – original draft: PMS VZ. Writing – review & editing: PMS VZ JG JGJ SL JZ TT ATW JJ JDB AK.