About the Authors

Wei Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Du, Adya Verma

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Center for Stomatology & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Adya Verma

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Du, Adya Verma

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orofacial Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Qianlin Ye

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wen Du

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Center for Stomatology & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Sandy Lin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Atsushi Yamanaka

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Anatomy and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

Ophir D. Klein

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Orofacial Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jimmy K. Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jkhu@ucla.edu

Affiliations School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.