About the Authors

Christian C. Evans

cevans@midwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Kathy J. LePard

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Jeff W. Kwak

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Mary C. Stancukas

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Samantha Laskowski

Affiliation College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Joseph Dougherty

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Dental Medicine, College of Dental Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Laura Moulton

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Adam Glawe

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Yunwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Vanessa Leone

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dionysios A. Antonopoulos

Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Dan Smith

Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Eugene B. Chang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mae J. Ciancio

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCE MJC. Performed the experiments: JWK MCS JD LM CCE MJC YW SL VL EBC DAA DS AG. Analyzed the data: CCE KJL JWK JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJC KJL JWK JD. Wrote the paper: CCE KJL MJC.