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- Received April 19, 2011
- Revision received December 29, 2011
- Accepted January 6, 2012
- First published February 14, 2012.
- Version of record published February 14, 2012.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: P.D.A. and J.R.I. designed research; P.D.A. and J.R.I. performed research; P.D.A. and J.R.I. analyzed data; P.D.A. and J.R.I. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received April 19, 2011.
- Revision received December 29, 2011.
- Accepted January 6, 2012.
This work was supported by United States Public Health Service NIH-NIA P01 Grant AG09524, NIH-NIDCD P30 Grant DC005409, and the Schmitt Foundation for Integrative Brain Research. We thank Drs. Bruce Tempel, Cornelia Kopp-Scheinpflug, and Gary Paige for discussion and comments on previous versions of this manuscript; Dr. Robert Frisina, Xiaoxia Zhu and Martha Zettel for genotyping the mice; Dr. William O'Neill, Dr. Joseph Walton, and John Housel for their contributions to ABR testing and interpretation; and two anonymous reviewers for their well-informed comments.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Paul D. Allen, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 603 Rochester, NY 14642. paul_allen{at}urmc.rochester.edu
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