Acknowledgements
We thank agencies who provided grant support as well as the many subject
families, whose participation makes this research possible. Grant
identifications numbers include 5R01HD073434 for WES and 5P01HD035946
for subject recruitment. We give special thanks to Lawrence C. Shimmin
and Do-Kyun Kim from the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and
Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health at The University of
Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) for their work and
expertise in WES. Special thanks to Karen Soldano and Melanie Garett in
Department of Medicine at Duke University for their technical support
and providing human neural tubes RNA SAGE information to annotate WES
results. LH acknowledges support for attending the International NTD
meeting to allow display and discussion of the data with grant number
NIH R13 HD 100191.