About the Authors

Jian-Guo Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Guo Ren, Pankaj Seth

Affiliation Divisions of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Hematology-Oncology and Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pankaj Seth

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Guo Ren, Pankaj Seth

Affiliation Divisions of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Hematology-Oncology and Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Everett

Affiliation Divisions of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Hematology-Oncology and Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Clary B. Clish

Affiliation Metabolite Profiling Initiative, The Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vikas P. Sukhatme

vsukhatm@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Divisions of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Hematology-Oncology and Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JGR VPS. Performed the experiments: JGR PS PE CBC. Analyzed the data: JGR PS VPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PE CBC. Wrote the paper: JGR VPS.