About the Authors

Crystal A. Ruff

Contributed equally to this work with: Crystal A. Ruff, Stuart D. Faulkner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stuart D. Faulkner

Contributed equally to this work with: Crystal A. Ruff, Stuart D. Faulkner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Prakasham Rumajogee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stephanie Beldick

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Warren Foltz

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation STARR facility, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jennifer Corrigan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Pediatric Neurosciences, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Alfred Basilious

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Shangjun Jiang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Shanojan Thiyagalingam

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jerome Y. Yager

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Pediatric Neurosciences, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Michael G. Fehlings

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

michael.fehlings@uhn.on.ca

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

MGF wishes to declare consulting agreements with Pfizer, Zimmer Biomet and InVivo Therapeutics. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.