Article Information
- Received February 24, 2012
- Revision received October 13, 2012
- Accepted October 29, 2012
- First published January 2, 2013.
- Version of record published January 2, 2013.
Author Information
- Fuqu Lu1,*,
- Deepon Kar1,*,
- Nicole Gruenig1,
- Zi Wei Zhang1,
- Nicole Cousins1,
- Helen M. Rodgers2,
- Eric C. Swindell3,
- Milan Jamrich4,
- Carol Schuurmans5,
- Peter H. Mathers6, and
- Deborah M. Kurrasch1
- 1Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada,
- 2Neuroscience Graduate Program, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506,
- 3Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030,
- 4Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030,
- 5Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, and
- 6Departments of Otolaryngology, Biochemistry, and Ophthalmology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506
Author contributions
Author contributions: F.L., D.K., N.G., Z.W.Z., H.M.R., P.H.M., and D.M.K. designed research; F.L., D.K., N.G., Z.W.Z., N.C., and H.M.R. performed research; E.C.S., M.J., C.S., and P.H.M. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; F.L., D.K., C.S., P.H.M., and D.M.K. analyzed data; D.M.K. wrote the paper.
↵*F.L. and D.K. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received February 24, 2012.
- Revision received October 13, 2012.
- Accepted October 29, 2012.
This work was supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Grant MOP-275053 and Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation to D.M.K., Nation Intitutes of Health Grant EY012152 to P.H.M., and CIHR MOP-44094 to C.S. We thank Dr. Clement Cheung (University of California, San Francisco) for technical assistance with sectioning and in situ hybridization and our colleagues at the University of Calgary, Drs. Sarah Childs and Sarah McFarlane, for useful discussions and sharing of reagents.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Deborah M. Kurrasch, Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Room HS2275, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada. kurrasch{at}ucalgary.ca
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