About the Authors

Patricio Jeraldo

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Krishna Kalari

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Xianfeng Chen

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jaysheel Bhavsar

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Ashutosh Mangalam

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Bryan White

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Heidi Nelson

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jean-Pierre Kocher

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Nicholas Chia

chia.nicholas@mayo.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors would also note here that Prof. Bryan White is member of the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PJ NC. Performed the experiments: PJ NC. Analyzed the data: PJ KK XC JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM BW HN JK. Wrote the paper: PJ JK NC.