About the Authors

Susan Friedman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Min Lu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Atara Schultz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Dolly Thomas

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Reigh-Yi Lin

reigh-yi.lin@mssm.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, The Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RYL. Performed the experiments: SF ML AS DT. Analyzed the data: SF ML AS DT. Wrote the paper: RYL.