About the Authors

David Habart

Current address: Islet Transplant Laboratory, Diabetes Centre, Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

Affiliation Roon Research Center for Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis, The Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yann Cheli

Current address: INSERM, U1065, Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire (C3M), Equipe 1, Biology and Pathologies of Melanocytes, Nice, France

Affiliation Roon Research Center for Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis, The Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Diane J. Nugent

Affiliation Hematology Research, CHOC Children's Hospital, Orange, California, United States of America

Zaverio M. Ruggeri

Affiliation Roon Research Center for Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis, The Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Thomas J. Kunicki

tkunicki@choc.org

Affiliations Roon Research Center for Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis, The Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Hematology Research, CHOC Children's Hospital, Orange, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH TJK. Performed the experiments: DH YC TJK. Analyzed the data: DH YC DJN TJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJN ZMR TJK. Wrote the paper: DH TJK.