About the Authors

Yuzhi Jia

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hsiang-Chun Chang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Matthew J. Schipma

Affiliation Next Generation Sequencing Core Facility, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jing Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Varsha Shete

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ning Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tatsuya Sato

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Edward B. Thorp

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Philip M. Barger

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Yi-Jun Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Navin Viswakarma

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yashpal S. Kanwar

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hossein Ardehali

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bayar Thimmapaya

jkreddy@northwestern.edu (JKR); b-thimmapaya@northwestern.edu (BT)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Janardan K. Reddy

jkreddy@northwestern.edu (JKR); b-thimmapaya@northwestern.edu (BT)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JKR BT HA YJ PMB. Formal analysis: YJ BT MJS JKR NV VS. Methodology: YJ HCC VS NL JL TS BT. Resources: YSK NV EBT YJZ. Writing - original draft: JKR BT YJ. Writing - review & editing: JKR BT YJ.