About the Authors

Kai Lee Yap

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Polina Sysa-Shah

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Brad Bolon

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ren-Chin Wu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Min Gao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alice L. Herlinger

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Biotechnology Program/RENORBIO, Health Sciences Center, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Fengying Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Francesco Faiola

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

David Huso

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kathleen Gabrielson

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Tian-Li Wang

Affiliation Departments of Gynecology/Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jianlong Wang

ishih@jhmi.edu (IS); jianlong.wang@mssm.edu (JW)

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Ie-Ming Shih

ishih@jhmi.edu (IS); jianlong.wang@mssm.edu (JW)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Departments of Gynecology/Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLY PS BB DH KG TW IS. Performed the experiments: KLY PS MG FW AH. Analyzed the data: KLY PS BB RW MG DH KG TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF JW. Wrote the manuscript: KLY BB IS.