About the Authors

Lisa J. Martin

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa J. Martin, Jayanta Gupta

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jayanta Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa J. Martin, Jayanta Gupta

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Soma S. S. K. Jyothula

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Melinda Butsch Kovacic

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jocelyn M. Biagini Myers

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Tia L. Patterson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mark B. Ericksen

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hua He

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Aaron M. Gibson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Tesfaye M. Baye

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Sushil Amirisetty

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Anna M. Tsoras

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Youbao Sha

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

N. Tony Eissa

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

Gurjit.Khurana.Hershey@cchmc.org

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GKKH NTE. Performed the experiments: SJ MBE. Analyzed the data: LJM HH JG SJ SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TLP AMG AMT SA. Wrote the paper: LJM JG MBK JBM GKKH NTE YS SJ TMB.