About the Authors

Randy F. Crossland

Contributed equally to this work with: Randy F. Crossland, Alfred Balasa

Current address: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Expeditionary and Trauma Medicine, Combat Casualty Care, Naval Medical Research Unit-San Antonio (NAMRU-SA), 3650 Chambers Pass, JBSA-Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

Alfred Balasa

Contributed equally to this work with: Randy F. Crossland, Alfred Balasa

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Child Neurology/Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

Rajesh Ramakrishnan

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sangeetha K. Mahadevan

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Marta L. Fiorotto

Affiliation USDA/Agricultural Research Service Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Ignatia B. Van den Veyver

iveyver@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IBV RFC AB MLF. Formal analysis: RFC AB MLF RR SM. Funding acquisition: IBV MLF. Investigation: RFC AB RR SM MLF. Methodology: IBV RFC AB MLF. Project administration: IBV. Resources: MLF. Supervision: IBV. Visualization: IBV RR SM RFC MLF. Writing – original draft: IBV RR RFC AB MLF. Writing – review & editing: IBV RR MLF.