About the Authors

Christopher S. Ward

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

Teng-Wei Huang

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

José A. Herrera

Affiliation Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

Rodney C. Samaco

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America, Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

Meagan R. Pitcher

Affiliation Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

Alan Herron

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

Steven A. Skinner

Affiliation Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC 29646, United States of America

Walter E. Kaufmann

Affiliations Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC 29646, United States of America, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America

Daniel G. Glaze

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

Alan K. Percy

Affiliation University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Jeffrey L. Neul

jneul@ucsd.edu

Current address: Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, M/C 0626, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America, Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CSW TWH JLN. Data curation: CSW JLN. Formal analysis: CSW JLN. Funding acquisition: JLN AKP RCS. Investigation: CSW TWH JAH RCS MRP JLN SAS DGG AKP WEK AH. Methodology: CSW JLN. Project administration: JLN. Resources: RCS. Supervision: JLN. Visualization: CSW JLN. Writing – original draft: CSW JLN. Writing – review & editing: CSW JLN DGG SAS WEK AKP RCS TWH JAH.