About the Authors

Jennifer Govero

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Govero, Balraj Doray

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Balraj Doray

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Govero, Balraj Doray

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Hongdong Bai

Current address: Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego and Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Stuart Kornfeld

skornfel@dom.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG BD HB SK. Performed the experiments: JG BD HB. Analyzed the data: JG BD HB SK. Wrote the paper: JG BD SK.