About the Authors

Katherine E. Durrer

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

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

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.