About the Authors

Srinivas Sonne

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Science University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Prem S. Shekhawat

shekhawatp@ecu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Science University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Dietrich Matern

Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Medical Genetics, and Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Vadivel Ganapathy

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Leszek Ignatowicz

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS PSS VG LI. Performed the experiments: SS DM PSS VG LI. Analyzed the data: SS DM PSS VG LI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM PSS VG LI. Wrote the paper: SS DM PSS VG LI.