About the Authors

Amjad Horani

horani_a@kids.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Steven L. Brody

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Thomas W. Ferkol

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David Shoseyov

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Mollie G. Wasserman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Asaf Ta-shma

Affiliation Monique and Jacques Roboh Department of Genetic Research, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Kate S. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Philip V. Bayly

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Israel Amirav

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Ziv Medical Center, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Malena Cohen-Cymberknoh

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Susan K. Dutcher

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Orly Elpeleg

Affiliation Monique and Jacques Roboh Department of Genetic Research, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Eitan Kerem

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH SLB TWF SKD PVB EK. Performed the experiments: AH MGW AT KSW IA SKD. Analyzed the data: AH SLB TWF DS PVB SKD OE IA MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLB TWF PVB SKD OE EK. Wrote the paper: AH SLB TWF EK OE SKD PVB. Collected samples: DS IA MC.