About the Authors

Jessica Jen-Chu Wang

jessicawang@mednet.ucla.edu (JJCW); jlusis@mednet.ucla.edu (AJL)

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christoph Rau

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rozeta Avetisyan

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shuxun Ren

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Milagros C. Romay

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gabriel Stolin

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ke Wei Gong

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yibin Wang

‡ YW and AJL are Joint Senior Authors.

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Aldons J. Lusis

jessicawang@mednet.ucla.edu (JJCW); jlusis@mednet.ucla.edu (AJL)

‡ YW and AJL are Joint Senior Authors.

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJCW CR YW AJL. Performed the experiments: JJCW CR RA SR MCR GS KWG. Analyzed the data: JJCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR RA MCR YW. Wrote the paper: JJCW AJL.