About the Authors

Wei Chun Chang

Current address: Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jennifer K. Ng

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Trieu Nguyen

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lucie Pellissier

Affiliations Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Universités de Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5203, Montpellier, France, INSERM U661, Montpellier, France

Sylvie Claeysen

Affiliations Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Universités de Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5203, Montpellier, France, INSERM U661, Montpellier, France

Edward C. Hsiao

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Bruce R. Conklin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bconklin@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BC WC JN TN LP SC EH. Performed the experiments: WC. Analyzed the data: BC WC JN TN LP SC EH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC. Wrote the paper: WC.