About the Authors

Hiroko Kita-Matsuo

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Maria Barcova

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Natalie Prigozhina

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Nathan Salomonis

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Karen Wei

Affiliations Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey G. Jacot

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Brandon Nelson

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sean Spiering

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

René Haverslag

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Changsung Kim

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Maria Talantova

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ruchi Bajpai

Current address: Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Diego Calzolari

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alexey Terskikh

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Andrew D. McCulloch

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey H. Price

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bruce R. Conklin

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

H. S. Vincent Chen

Affiliations Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mark Mercola

mmercola@burnham.org

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HKM MB NP NGS KW JGJ BN ADM JP HSVC MM. Performed the experiments: HKM MB NP NGS KW JGJ BN SS RH CK MT RB DC HSVC. Analyzed the data: HKM MB NP NGS JGJ SS RH CK DC ADM JP BRC HSVC MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CK AVT ADM BRC HSVC. Wrote the paper: HKM HSVC MM.