About the Authors

Cesar A. Sommer

Contributed equally to this work with: Cesar A. Sommer, Constantina Christodoulou, Andreia Gianotti-Sommer

Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Constantina Christodoulou

Contributed equally to this work with: Cesar A. Sommer, Constantina Christodoulou, Andreia Gianotti-Sommer

Affiliation Boston University Pulmonary Center, and Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andreia Gianotti-Sommer

Contributed equally to this work with: Cesar A. Sommer, Constantina Christodoulou, Andreia Gianotti-Sommer

Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven S. Shen

Affiliation Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Badi Sri Sailaja

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel

Hadas Hezroni

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel

Avrum Spira

Affiliation Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eran Meshorer

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel

Darrell N. Kotton

gmostosl@bu.edu (GM); dkotton@bu.edu (DNK)

Affiliations Boston University Pulmonary Center, and Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gustavo Mostoslavsky

gmostosl@bu.edu (GM); dkotton@bu.edu (DNK)

Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS EM GM DNK. Performed the experiments: CC AGS BSS HH. Analyzed the data: CAS CC AGS SSS AS EM GM DNK. Wrote the paper: CAS GM DNK.