About the Authors

Jianzhong Hu

jianzhong.hu@mssm.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Yoko Nomura

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York, United States of America

Ali Bashir

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Heriberto Fernandez-Hernandez

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Steven Itzkowitz

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhiheng Pei

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Joanne Stone

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Holly Loudon

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Inga Peter

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH IP. Performed the experiments: JH HF. Analyzed the data: JH AB . Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YN AB SI ZP JS HL. Wrote the paper: JH IP.