We thank the staff at the UAB University Hospital, Department of Pathology for assistance in collecting samples, Janice King and Yvette Hale for technical assistance, Flora Gathof for administrative assistance, and David Briles for helpful discussions.
The authors thank the institutional cores of FACS, Optical Imaging, and Pathology for their assistance in obtaining part of the presented data.
The authors would like to thank Renate Stöckigt and Cornelia Hüttich, Institute of Pathology, for technical assistance with behavioural experiments and joint histology.
However, the known functions of the proteins mutated in disease are insufficient to fully explain the pathologies observed without assistance from partner proteins that thus far have not been identified.
We would like to thank Béatrice Uring-Lambert for help with TCR repertoire phenotyping and Marie-Pierre Chenard for assistance in pathology and helpful discussions.
We thank Paul Whiting, Director of Clinical Pathology, Capital Pathology, Canberra Australia for assistance with case identification.
We acknowledge the electron microscopy facilities in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UC Irvine, and the Department of Pathology at Duke University, for assistance in preparing and imaging specimens.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/13/144/prepub The authors would like to thank the Leaders in Speech Pathology group for their assistance with the study.
Classes will include kinesiology, pathology, medical terminology, anatomy, assistance techniques and therapy exercises.
In addition, we thank Dr. Bob Sigler for technical assistance in mouse pathology.
We thank Ms. Juliet Joly for her technical help with the manuscript preparation, and Drs. Subhashree Madhavan and Wei Lin for their help with the CEL files on the GEO site, Drs. Abbas Shakoori and Konstantin Shilo for assistance with the pathology specimens, and Dr. Kenneth Buetow for support.
