About the Authors

Alexander Zaborin

Affiliation University of Chicago Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Svetlana Gerdes

Affiliation Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, Burr Ridge, Illinois, United States of America

Christopher Holbrook

Affiliation University of Chicago Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Donald C. Liu

Affiliation University of Chicago Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Olga Y. Zaborina

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Y. Zaborina, John C. Alverdy

Affiliation University of Chicago Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

John C. Alverdy

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Y. Zaborina, John C. Alverdy

jalverdy@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu

Affiliation University of Chicago Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ OYZ JCA. Performed the experiments: AZ CH OYZ. Analyzed the data: AZ SG DCL OYZ JCA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG DCL. Wrote the paper: AZ SG OYZ JCA.