Article Information
- Received November 28, 2011
- Revision received March 24, 2012
- Accepted April 3, 2012
- First published July 11, 2012.
- Version of record published July 11, 2012.
Author Information
- David Fernández-López1,*,
- Joel Faustino1,*,
- Richard Daneman2,
- Lu Zhou3,
- Sarah Y. Lee1,
- Nikita Derugin1,
- Michael F. Wendland4, and
- Zinaida S. Vexler1
- 1Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0633,
- 2Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143,
- 3Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, and
- 4Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
Author contributions
Author contributions: D.F.-L., R.D., and Z.S.V. designed research; D.F.-L., J.F., R.D., L.Z., S.Y.L., N.D., M.F.W., and Z.S.V. performed research; D.F.-L., J.F., R.D., M.F.W., and Z.S.V. analyzed data; D.F.-L., R.D., and Z.S.V. wrote the paper.
↵*D.F.-L. and J.F. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received November 28, 2011.
- Revision received March 24, 2012.
- Accepted April 3, 2012.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant RO1 NS55915 (Z.S.V.), National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant RO1 NS44025 (Z.S.V.), American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid 0855235F (Z.S.V.), the Ramón Areces Foundation (D.F.-L.), R01 NS045621 (Ben A. Barres), the Myelin Repair Foundation (Ben A. Barres, R.D.), and the Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (R.D.). We acknowledge Andra Dingman for her contribution to early stages of the study, Baomei Liu and Brianna Pickering for technical help, and Donna Ferriero, M.D., for useful discussions. We would also like to acknowledge the generosity of Dr. Ben A. Barres, as the genomic work was performed in his laboratory by Dr. Richard Daneman.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Zinaida S. Vexler, Ph.D., University California San Francisco, Department of Neurology, Box 0663, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0663. Zena.Vexler{at}ucsf.edu
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