The authors appreciate Prof. Jijiang Suo, Prof. Yunxi Liu, and Prof. Dingxia Shen (all of the Chinese PLA General Hospital) for their help with preparing the strains as well as all of the physicians, nurses, and supporting personnel for their dedicated care of the patients in this study.
We also thank the University of Pittsburgh Cytogenetics Facility and Dr. Sandra S. Wise from University of Southern Maine for help with preparing the chromosome metaphase spreads, and the University of Pittsburgh Center for Biological Imaging for assistance with confocal microscopy.
The authors thank Pamela Burton for help with preparing the manuscript and Colette Charland for assistance with flow cytometry.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/14/80/prepub We thank Peter Cosgrove at the Telethon Kids Institute for his help with preparing the data.
We thank Prof. Chang Chen for critical comments on the manuscript and Liqiong Xu for help with preparing the manuscript.
The authors thank Samia Soussi for help with preparing the manuscript.
The authors thank Saara-Maija Hinkkanen for practical help in conducting the study and Dr Tapio Flinkkilä for help with preparing the manuscript.
The authors thank Linda Arneson and Tamela Yeargin for help with preparing the manuscript.
FAA provided help with preparing the codes.
We are grateful to Alex Molnar for help with preparing the figures.
