About the Authors

Xingyi Guo

Current address: Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Mingyan Lin

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Shira Rockowitz

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Herbert M. Lachman

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Deyou Zheng

deyou.zheng@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliations The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XG DZ. Performed the experiments: XG ML SR HL DZ. Analyzed the data: XG DZ. Wrote the paper: XG HL DZ.