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Lorraine Potocki, M.D., F.A.C.M.G., Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics. Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, 6701 Fannin Street, Suite 1560, Houston, TX 77030, Phone: 832-822-4290, Fax: 832-825-1515. Email: lpotocki@bcm.edu
We would like to thank the individuals and their families for their willingness to participate and for sharing their clinical data with us. We acknowledge the generous referral from the many physicians and genetic professionals who helped identify subjects for these studies.
Rachel Franciskovich: The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine derives revenue from molecular genetic testing offered in the Baylor Genetics Laboratories Claudia Soler-Alfonso: The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine derives salary support from molecular genetic testing offered in the Baylor Genetics Laboratories Juanita Neira-Fresneda: No conflicts of interest Bonnie McCann-Crosby: No conflicts of interest James R. Lupski: Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Miraca Holdings have formed a joint venture with shared ownership and governance of the Baylor Genetics (BG), which performs clinical microarray analysis and clinical exome sequencing. J.R.L. serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the BG. J.R.L. has stock ownership in 23andMe, is a paid consultant for Regeneron pharmaceuticals, and is a co-inventor on multiple United States and European patents related to molecular diagnostics for inherited neuropathies, eye diseases, and bacterial genomic fingerprinting. The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine derives revenue from molecular genetic testing offered in the Baylor Genetics Laboratories. Lorraine Potocki: The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine derives revenue from molecular genetic testing offered in the Baylor Genetics Laboratories.
This work was supported in part by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grants K08 HD01149 (to L.P.), and the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHGRI/NHLBI) grant UM1HG006542 to the Baylor Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics (BHCMG); National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) grant R35 NS105078 to JRL; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)U54HD083092 to IDDRC Clinical Translational Core.