About the Authors

Seongho Ryu

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Natasha Joshi

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kevin McDonnell

Current address: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jongchan Woo

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Hyejin Choi

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Dingcheng Gao

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

William R. McCombie

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, New York, United States of America

Vivek Mittal

vim2010@med.cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR NJ KM VM. Performed the experiments: SR NJ HC DG KM JW. Analyzed the data: SR NJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR WRM. Wrote the paper: SR VM.