About the Authors

Chunjing Bian

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunjing Bian, Rong Wu

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Rong Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunjing Bian, Rong Wu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Kathleen Cho

xiayu@umich.edu (XY); kathcho@umich.edu (KC)

Affiliations Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Xiaochun Yu

xiayu@umich.edu (XY); kathcho@umich.edu (KC)

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KC XY. Performed the experiments: CB RW. Analyzed the data: CB RW KC XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB RW KC XY. Wrote the paper: CB KC XY.