About the Authors

Shuangmin Zhang

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Xuan Zhou

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Richard A. Lang

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Fukun Guo

fukun.guo@cchmc.org

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG SZ. Performed the experiments: SZ FG. Analyzed the data: FG SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ RL. Wrote the paper: FG.