About the Authors

Young-Wook Cho

Contributed equally to this work with: Young-Wook Cho, Chen-Jei Hong

Current address: KBSI Chuncheon Center, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute for Genomic Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Chen-Jei Hong

Contributed equally to this work with: Young-Wook Cho, Chen-Jei Hong

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute for Genomic Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Aiju Hou

Current address: School of Food Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Nangang District, Harbin, China

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute for Genomic Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Peter M. Gent

Current address: Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute for Genomic Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kuixing Zhang

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute for Genomic Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kyoung-Jae Won

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bruce A. Hamilton

bah@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute for Genomic Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YWC CJH AH PMG BAH. Performed the experiments: YWC CJH AH PMG KZ. Analyzed the data: YWC CJH AH PMG KZ KJW BAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YWC AH KZ KYW. Wrote the paper: YWC CJH AH PMG KZ KJW BAH.