About the Authors

Andrea G. Nackley

Affiliation Center for Neurosensory Disorders, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Svetlana A. Shabalina

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jason E. Lambert

Affiliation Department of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Mathew S. Conrad

Affiliation Center for Neurosensory Disorders, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Dustin G. Gibson

Affiliation Center for Neurosensory Disorders, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Alexey N. Spiridonov

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sarah K. Satterfield

Affiliation Center for Neurosensory Disorders, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Luda Diatchenko

lbdiatch@email.unc.edu

Affiliation Center for Neurosensory Disorders, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGN LD SAS. Performed the experiments: AGN SAS JEL MSC DGG SKS. Analyzed the data: AGN SAS JEL MSC DGG ANS. Wrote the paper: AGN LD SAS.