About the Authors

Yang Song

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shashank Garg

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mohit Girotra

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Cynthia Maddox

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Erik C. von Rosenvinge

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anand Dutta

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sudhir Dutta

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

W. Florian Fricke

wffricke@som.umaryland.edu

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS SD WFF. Performed the experiments: YS SG MG CM AD SD. Analyzed the data: YS WFF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SD WFF. Wrote the paper: YS ECvR SD WFF.