About the Authors

Annelyn Torres-Reverón

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

annelyn.torresreveron@utrgv.edu

Affiliations Dept. Neuroscience, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America, Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America

Leslie L. Rivera-Lopez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Harlingen, Texas, United States of America

Idhaliz Flores

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Basic Sciences, Ponce Health Sciences University—Ponce Research Institute, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ponce Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Caroline B. Appleyard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Basic Sciences, Ponce Health Sciences University—Ponce Research Institute, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Ponce Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Ponce Puerto Rico

Competing Interests

ATR, CBA and IF declare a provisional United States patent number 275204 filed on February 21st, 2018. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.