About the Authors

Edward W. Szczepaniak

Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Konstantinos Malliaras

Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael D. Nelson

Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lidia S. Szczepaniak

lidia.szczepaniak@cshs.org

Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 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: EWS LSS. Performed the experiments: EWS MDN KM. Analyzed the data: EWS LSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM. Wrote the paper: LSS MDN EWS.