About the Authors

Itay Shafat

Affiliation Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Amir Agbaria

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Mona Boaz

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, E. Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

Doron Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ronny Baruch

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Richard Nakash

Affiliation Transplant Clinic, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Neta Ilan

Affiliation Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Israel Vlodavsky

vlodavsk@cc.huji.ac.il (IV); tweinste@post.tau.ac.il (TW)

Affiliation Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Talia Weinstein

vlodavsk@cc.huji.ac.il (IV); tweinste@post.tau.ac.il (TW)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IV TW NI IS. Performed the experiments: IS. Analyzed the data: IS TW NI IV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW AA MB DS RB RN. Wrote the paper: NI TW IV IS.