About the Authors

Kate G Ackerman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kackerman@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America , Divison of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bruce J Herron

Affiliation Genomics Institute, Wadsworth Center, Troy, New York, United States of America

Sara O Vargas

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hailu Huang

Affiliation Divison of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sergei G Tevosian

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Lazaros Kochilas

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Cherie Rao

Affiliation Divison of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara R Pober

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Randal P Babiuk

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jonathan A Epstein

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John J Greer

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

David R Beier

Affiliation Divison of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

KGA, JJG, and DRB conceived and designed the experiments. KGA, BJH, HH, SGT, LK, CR, RPB, and JAE performed the experiments. KGA, BJH, HH, LK, CR, JAE, JJG, and DRB analyzed the data. KGA, SOV, SGT, BRP, JAE, JJG, and DRB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. KGA and DRB wrote the paper.