About the Authors

Alex S. Nord

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nordalex@u.washington.edu (AN); bconklin@gladstone.ucsf.edu (BC)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, MacDonald Medical Research Laboratories, University of California at Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America

Karen Vranizan

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, California, United States of America

Whittemore Tingley

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alexander C. Zambon

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kristina Hanspers

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America

Loren G. Fong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, MacDonald Medical Research Laboratories, University of California at Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yan Hu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, MacDonald Medical Research Laboratories, University of California at Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Peter Bacchetti

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thomas E. Ferrin

Affiliation Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America

Patricia C. Babbitt

Affiliation Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America

Scott W. Doniger

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

William C. Skarnes

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephen G. Young

Affiliation Department of Medicine, MacDonald Medical Research Laboratories, University of California at Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bruce R. Conklin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nordalex@u.washington.edu (AN); bconklin@gladstone.ucsf.edu (BC)

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BC AZ WS WT SY AN KV SD. Performed the experiments: BC AZ PB WT KH LF YH SY AN KV SD TF. Analyzed the data: BC WS KH AN KV PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC. Wrote the paper: BC WS SY AN KV PB.