About the Authors

Jinong Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinong Feng, Zhifang Zhang

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Zhifang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinong Feng, Zhifang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Wenyan Li

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xiaoming Shen

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Wenjia Song

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Chunmei Yang

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Frances Chang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Longmate

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Claudia Marek

Affiliation Fibromyalgia Treatment Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

R. Paul St. Amand

Affiliation Fibromyalgia Treatment Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Theodore G. Krontiris

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

John E. Shively

jshively@coh.org (JES); ssommer@medomics.com (SSS)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Steve S. Sommer

jshively@coh.org (JES); ssommer@medomics.com (SSS)

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS SSS. Performed the experiments: JF ZZ WL XS WS CY FC. Analyzed the data: JF ZZ JL TGK SSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM RPSA. Wrote the paper: JS.