About the Authors

Tianyi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Bowen Song

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Wei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Xiao Xu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Qing Qing Gong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University-St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Christopher Morando

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University-St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Themistocles Dassopoulos

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University-St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rodney D. Newberry

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University-St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Steven R. Hunt

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Washington University-St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ellen Li

Ellen.Li@stonybrook.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Washington University-St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL SH. Performed the experiments: QG CM EL. Analyzed the data: TZ BS WZ XX EL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RN TD SH XX. Wrote the paper: TZ EL BS WZ.