About the Authors

Se-Jin Lee

*E-mail: sjlee@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Under a licensing agreement between MetaMorphix, Inc. (MMI) and the Johns Hopkins University, the author is entitled to a share of royalty received by the University on sales of the factor described in this paper. Both the author, who is the scientific founder of MMI, and the University own MMI stock, which is subject to certain restrictions under University policy. The author is a paid consultant to MMI and to Merck on research areas related to the study described in this paper. The terms of these arrangements are being managed by the University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL. Performed the experiments: SL. Analyzed the data: SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL. Wrote the paper: SL.