*Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia; School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
†Department of Orthopaedics, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
‡Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
§Disciplines of Genetic Medicine and Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Sydney, Western Sydney Genetics Program, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia
¶Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia; The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (Westmead), Sydney, NSW, Australia
||Department of Radiology, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, WA, Australia
**Paediatric Spine Research Group, Queensland University of Technology and Mater Health Services, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
††Department of Surgery, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
‡‡Department of Orthopaedics, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia
§§Discipline of Orthopaedics and Trauma, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Jennepher Downs, Telethon Kids Institute, PO Box 855, West Perth, Western Australia 6872, Australia; E-mail: [email protected]
Received 17 July, 2015
Revised 2 October, 2015
Accepted 29 October, 2015
The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).
The National Institutes of Health (5R01HD043100–05) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grants #303189, and #1004384 and an NHMRC program grant #572742 were received previously to support this work. Professor Helen Leonard's funding (2009–2014) was from an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship #572568. Professor Elizabeth J Elliott is supported by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship #457084.
Relevant financial activities outside the submitted work: employment, grants, travel/accommodations/meeting expenses.
