About the Authors

Asha Acharya

Contributed equally to this work with: Asha Acharya, Chetan P. Hans

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Chetan P. Hans

Contributed equally to this work with: Asha Acharya, Chetan P. Hans

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research and the Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States of America

Sara N. Koenig

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research and the Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States of America

Haley A. Nichols

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Cristi L. Galindo

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Harold R. Garner

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Walter H. Merrill

Affiliation Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Robert B. Hinton

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Vidu Garg

vidu.garg@nationwidechildrens.org

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research and the Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA CPH RBH VG. Performed the experiments: AA CPH SNK HAN WHM RBH. Analyzed the data: AA CPH CLG HRG RBH VG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA CPH CLG HRG WHM RBH. Wrote the paper: AA CPH RBH VG.