About the Authors

Ganlu Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ganlu Hu, Kevin Huang

Affiliations Translational Center for Stem Cell Research, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Kevin Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ganlu Hu, Kevin Huang

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Juehua Yu

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sailesh Gopalakrishna-Pillai

Affiliation Stem Cell Biology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jun Kong

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

He Xu

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhenshan Liu

Affiliation Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Kunshan Zhang

Affiliation Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jun Xu

Affiliation Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yuping Luo

Affiliation Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Siguang Li

Affiliation Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yi E. Sun

Affiliations Translational Center for Stem Cell Research, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Linda E. Iverson

Affiliation Stem Cell Biology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Zhigang Xue

GFan@mednet.ucla.edu (GF); Xuezhigang75@gmail.com (ZX)

Affiliations Translational Center for Stem Cell Research, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Guoping Fan

GFan@mednet.ucla.edu (GF); Xuezhigang75@gmail.com (ZX)

Affiliations Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GH KH GF ZX. Performed the experiments: GH JY SGP JK HX ZL. Analyzed the data: GH KH KZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GH KH JY SGP JK HX ZL KZ JX YL SL YS GF LEI ZX. Wrote the paper: GH KH GF ZX.