About the Authors

Marco Ricci

mricci@med.miami.edu

Affiliation Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Holtz Children's Hospital/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Yanji Xu

Affiliation Shaun and Lilly International, LLC, Palm City, Florida, United States of America

Harriet L. Hammond

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

David A. Willoughby

Affiliation Ocean Ridge Biosciences LLC, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America

Lubov Nathanson

Affiliation Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Maria M. Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Holtz Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Matteo Vatta

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Steven E. Lipshultz

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Holtz Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Joy Lincoln

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

Using funding mechanisms stated in the submitted manuscript, Ocean Ridge Biosciences (DW) and Shaun and Lilly International LLC (YX) were paid to perform the microarray analysis presented in this submission. The said authors do not work for The University of Miami and have no financial or personal (non-financial) affiliation. Therefore, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M.Ricci JL MV SL. Performed the experiments: M.Ricci HH LN JL M.Rodriguez. Analyzed the data: M.Ricci YX DW LN JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M.Ricci JL. Wrote the paper: M.Ricci JL MV SL.