About the Authors

Maoqing Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Maoqing Wu, Chaozhe Yang

Current address: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Research Division, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Chaozhe Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Maoqing Wu, Chaozhe Yang

Current address: Center for Translational Science, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC United States of America

Affiliation Research Division, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Binli Tao

Current address: Department of Cell, Developmental, & Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Research Division, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Su Bu

Current address: Department of Nutrition Sciences Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Research Division, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lisa M. Guay-Woodford

LGuaywoo@childrensnational.org

Current address: Center for Translational Science, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC United States of America

Affiliation Research Division, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMGW MW CY. Performed the experiments: MW CY BT SB. Analyzed the data: MW CY BT LMGW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB. Wrote the paper: MW CY LMGW.