Figure 2

Molecular barcoding results for 18 autopsy patients are shown with the consensus barcode in the first row and the individual barcodes for frontal lobe (FL), cerebellum (CB), brainstem (BS), heart (H), lung (L), and colon (C). Among the eight non-CM patients, the diagnoses were SMA (1), pneumonia (3), sepsis (1), giant cell myocarditis (1), ruptured arteriovenous malformation (1), and traumatic skull fracture (1). Where the individual barcode matches the consensus, an * is used. Where the individual barcode differs from consensus, the reported allele is given (A, G, C, or T). When the consensus barcode call is not conserved across all tissues, the consensus call is highlighted in black with white text. For those samples which were either not available or the reaction failed, a dash (−) is used to denote missing. For a heterozygous consensus call, the IUPAC code (Additional File 4) is used and BOTH bases denoted by the code are present.