About the Authors

Zhejun Ji

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhejun Ji, Marianthi Kiparaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America,

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Marianthi Kiparaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhejun Ji, Marianthi Kiparaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Virginia Folgado

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Amit Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Jorge Blanco

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Current address: Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Gerard Rimesso

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Current address: TransViragen, Inc. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Jacky Chuen

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Yang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Deyou Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Nicholas E. Baker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Nicholas.baker@einsteinmed.org

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.