About the Authors

Justin D. Lathia

lathiaj@ccf.org (JDL); richj@ccf.org (JNR)

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Joseph Gallagher

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jay T. Myers

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Meizhang Li

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Amit Vasanji

Current address: ImageIQ, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Image Processing Core, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Roger E. McLendon

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Anita B. Hjelmeland

Affiliations Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular Medicine Program, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Alex Y. Huang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jeremy N. Rich

lathiaj@ccf.org (JDL); richj@ccf.org (JNR)

Affiliations Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular Medicine Program, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDL ABH AYH JNR. Performed the experiments: JDL JG JTM ML AV. Analyzed the data: JDL JTM AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: REM. Wrote the paper: JDL ABH JNR.