About the Authors

Sumit Bhattacharyya

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joanne K. Tobacman

jkt@uic.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKT SB. Performed the experiments: SB. Analyzed the data: SB JKT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB JKT. Wrote the paper: JKT.