About the Authors

Gina M. Coudriet

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jing He

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Massimo Trucco

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wendy M. Mars

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jon D. Piganelli

jdp51@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMC WMM JDP. Performed the experiments: GMC JH. Analyzed the data: GMC JH WMM JDP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT JDP. Wrote the paper: GMC WMM JDP.