About the Authors

Benjamin S. Mantell

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin S. Mantell, Maja Stefanovic-Racic

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Maja Stefanovic-Racic

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin S. Mantell, Maja Stefanovic-Racic

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiao Yang

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nikolas Dedousis

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ian J. Sipula

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert M. O'Doherty

rmo1@pitt.edu

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ROD MSR. Performed the experiments: BSM MSR XY ND IJS. Analyzed the data: BSM MSR ROD. Wrote the paper: BSM MSR ROD.