Article Information
- Received December 13, 2014
- Revision received February 4, 2015
- Accepted February 5, 2015
- First published March 11, 2015.
- Version of record published March 11, 2015.
Author Information
- A. Paul Nagtegaal1,2,*,
- Robert N. Rainey4,*,
- Ingrid van der Pluijm3,
- Renata M.C. Brandt3,
- Gijsbertus T.J. van der Horst3,
- J. Gerard G. Borst1, and
- Neil Segil4
- 1Departments of Neuroscience and
- 2Otorhinolaryngology, and
- 3Department of Genetics, Cancer Genomic Center, Erasmus MC, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and
- 4Departments of Regenerative Medicine/Stem Cell Biology, and Otolaryngology, Eli and Edythe Broad Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033
Author contributions
Author contributions: A.P.N., R.N.R., G.T.J.v.d.H., J.G.G.B., and N.S. designed research; A.P.N., R.N.R., I.v.d.P., and R.M.C.B. performed research; A.P.N., R.N.R., I.v.d.P., R.M.C.B., G.T.J.v.d.H., J.G.G.B., and N.S. analyzed data; A.P.N., R.N.R., G.T.J.v.d.H., J.G.G.B., and N.S. wrote the paper.
↵*A.P.N. and R.N.R. are co-first authors and contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received December 13, 2014.
- Revision received February 4, 2015.
- Accepted February 5, 2015.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award F32DC010125 (to R.N.R.), the Sidgmore Family Foundation, NIH Grant R01-DC-007173 (to N.S.), the Dutch Fund for Economic Structure Reinforcement (Grant 0908 for the “NeuroBasic PharmaPhenomics project,” to J.G.G.B.), and the Heinsius-Houbolt Fund (A.P.N.). We thank Juan Llamas, Welly Makmura, and Francesca Della Ripa for excellent technical support; and Caroline Abdala for assistance with the ABR and DPOAE analyses.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Neil Segil, 1425 San Pablo Street, BCC211, Los Angeles, CA 90033, nsegil{at}med.usc.edu; or Gerard G. Borst, Wytemaweg 80, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, g.borst{at}erasmusmc.nl
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