About the Authors

Kenta Nakamura

kenta.nakamura@ucsf.edu

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

Nathan Salomonis

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

Kiichiro Tomoda

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

Shinya Yamanaka

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Bruce R. Conklin

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, 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: KN NS KT BRC. Performed the experiments: KN NS. Analyzed the data: KN NS KT SY BRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN NS KT SY BRC. Wrote the paper: KN NS BRC.