About the Authors

Martin Degen

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patricia Barron

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Easwar Natarajan

Affiliation Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Hans R. Widlund

Contributed equally to this work with: Hans R. Widlund, James G. Rheinwald

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James G. Rheinwald

Contributed equally to this work with: Hans R. Widlund, James G. Rheinwald

jimrheinwald@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD EN HRW JGR. Performed the experiments: MD JGR HRW PB. Analyzed the data: MD EN HRW JGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD EN HRW JGR. Wrote the paper: MD HRW JGR.