About the Authors
- Katherine E. Durrer
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Current address: Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America
- Michael S. Allen
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* E-mail: Michael.Allen@unthsc.edu
Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, Center for Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
- Ione Hunt von Herbing
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and the authors of the manuscript have the following competing interests: Australian Patent Application No. 2013/295621, which is pending; Canadian Patent Application No. 2,880,620, which is pending; European Patent Application No. 13/745543.2, which is pending; U.S. Patent Application No. 14/417,176, which is pending and also published under U.S. publication number US2015/0246083. Inactive: PCT/US13/52200, published under the publication number WO 2014/018832. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: KED MSA IHvH. Data curation: KED MSA IHvH. Formal analysis: KED MSA IHvH. Funding acquisition: KED MSA IHvH. Investigation: KED. Methodology: KED MSA. Project administration: KED MSA IHvH. Resources: KED MSA IHvH. Supervision: KED MSA IHvH. Validation: KED MSA IHvH. Visualization: KED MSA IHvH. Writing – original draft: KED. Writing – review & editing: KED MSA IHvH.