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Corresponding author: Peng Jin, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America. Email: peng.jin@emory.edu.
Conceived and designed the experiments: PJ AQ.
Performed the experiments: AQ WL J-YZ.
Analyzed the data: AQ JP PJ.
Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP PJ.
Wrote the paper: AQ PJ.
The authors would like to thank A. Spradling, F. Fuller-Pace, E. Lei, and M. Ramaswami for providing useful reagents and J. Taylor of The Integrated Microscopy and Microanalytical Facility for their help with SEM.
The authors would also like to thank the members of the Jin lab for their assistance and C. Strauss for critical reading of the manuscript.
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
AQ was supported by and is a recipient of a National Ataxia Postdoctoral Award.
PJ is supported by NIH grants R01 NS051630 and R01 MH076090.
PJ is a recipient of the Beckman Young Investigator Award and the Basil O'Connor Scholar Research Award, as well as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience.
JP is funded by NIH grants (P50AG025688 and P30NS055077).
© 2011 Qurashi et al.