About the Authors

Nora G Smart

Contributed equally to this work with: Nora G Smart, Åsa A Apelqvist

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Åsa A Apelqvist

Contributed equally to this work with: Nora G Smart, Åsa A Apelqvist

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Xueying Gu

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Erin B Harmon

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

James N Topper

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Raymond J MacDonald

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology, University of Texas at Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Seung K Kim

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: seungkim@cmgm.stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America , Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

NGS, ÅAA, EBH, and SKK conceived and designed the experiments. NGS, ÅAA, and XG performed the experiments. NGS, ÅAA, and XG analyzed the data. NGS, ÅAA, XG, EBH, JNT, RJM and SKK contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. NGS and SKK wrote the paper.