About the Authors

Rong Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Rong Luo, Zhaohui Jin

Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhaohui Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Rong Luo, Zhaohui Jin

Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yiyu Deng

Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Natalie Strokes

Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xianhua Piao

xianhua.piao@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XP RL ZJ. Performed the experiments: RL ZJ YD NS. Analyzed the data: XP RL ZJ YD NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XP RL ZJ. Wrote the paper: XP.