About the Authors

Long-Sheng Chang

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

Long-Sheng.Chang@nationwidechildrens.org (L-SC); dclapp@iu.edu (DWC)

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Janet L. Oblinger

Contributed equally to this work with: Janet L. Oblinger, Abbi E. Smith

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Abbi E. Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: Janet L. Oblinger, Abbi E. Smith

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

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Marc Ferrer

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

Affiliation Division of Preclinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven P. Angus

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

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Eric Hawley

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

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Alejandra M. Petrilli

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Lake Nona-Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Roberta L. Beauchamp

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lars Björn Riecken

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Leibniz Institute on Aging–Fritz-Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany

Serkan Erdin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ming Poi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Pharmacy Practice and Science, The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jie Huang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Waylan K. Bessler

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Xiaohu Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Preclinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rajarshi Guha

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Preclinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Craig Thomas

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Preclinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah S. Burns

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas S. K. Gilbert

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Li Jiang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Xiaohong Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Qingbo Lu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Jin Yuan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Yongzheng He

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Shelley A. H. Dixon

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Andrea Masters

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

David R. Jones

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

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Charles W. Yates

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

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology and Head/Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Stephen J. Haggarty

Roles Investigation

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Salvatore La Rosa

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Children’s Tumor Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America

D. Bradley Welling

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Scott R. Plotkin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James F. Gusella

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

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Justin Guinney

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Helen Morrison

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

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Leibniz Institute on Aging–Fritz-Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany

Vijaya Ramesh

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

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cristina Fernandez-Valle

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Lake Nona-Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Gary L. Johnson

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

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jaishri O. Blakeley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

D. Wade Clapp

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

Long-Sheng.Chang@nationwidechildrens.org (L-SC); dclapp@iu.edu (DWC)

Members of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium. Please see the Acknowledgements for full member list.

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

on behalf of the Synodos for NF2 Consortium

Competing Interests

No authors have competing interests.