About the Authors

Sharon S. Y. Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Sharon S. Y. Wong, Carissa Ritner, Sweta Ramachandran

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Carissa Ritner

Contributed equally to this work with: Sharon S. Y. Wong, Carissa Ritner, Sweta Ramachandran

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sweta Ramachandran

Contributed equally to this work with: Sharon S. Y. Wong, Carissa Ritner, Sweta Ramachandran

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Julian Aurigui

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cameron Pitt

Affiliation Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Piyanka Chandra

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Vivian B. Ling

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Odessa Yabut

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Harold S. Bernstein

harold.bernstein@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California 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: SSYW SR HSB. Performed the experiments: SSYW CR SR JA CP PC VBL OY. Analyzed the data: SSYW CR SR CP HSB. Wrote the paper: SSYW CR SR JA HSB.