About the Authors

I-Ting Chow

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Junbao Yang

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Theresa J. Gates

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Eddie A. James

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Duy T. Mai

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Carla Greenbaum

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States of America

William W. Kwok

bkwok@benaroyaresearch.org

Affiliations Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IC JY WWK. Performed the experiments: IC JY TJG EAJ DTM. Analyzed the data: IC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IC. Wrote the paper: IC CG WWK.