About the Authors

Francis Raj Gandhi Amrit

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rangos Research Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Elizabeth Marie Steenkiste

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rangos Research Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ramesh Ratnappan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rangos Research Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shaw-Wen Chen

Affiliation Division of Basic Sciences Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

T. Brooke McClendon

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Magee Women’s Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dennis Kostka

Affiliation Departments of Developmental Biology and Computational and Systems Biology, Rangos Research Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Judith Yanowitz

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Magee Women’s Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carissa Perez Olsen

Affiliation Division of Basic Sciences Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Arjumand Ghazi

Arjumand.Ghazi@chp.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rangos Research Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG. Performed the experiments: FRGA AG EMS RR TBM SWC JY. Analyzed the data: AG FRGA DK JY CPO. Wrote the paper: AG. AG wrote the manuscript with contributions from the other authors: FRGA JY CPO RR.