About the Authors

Barbara Muller-Borer

mullerborerb@ecu.edu

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Gwyn Esch

Affiliations Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Rob Aldina

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Woohyun Woon

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Raymond Fox

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Nenad Bursac

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sylvia Hiller

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Nobuyuo Maeda

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Neal Shepherd

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jian Ping Jin

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Mary Hutson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Page Anderson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Margaret L. Kirby

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nadia N. Malouf

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BMB GE RA WW NB NS MH PA MLK NNM. Performed the experiments: BMB GE RA WW RF SH NS JPJ NNM. Analyzed the data: BMB GE RA WW NB NM NS JPJ MH PA MLK NNM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMB NB NM NS NNM. Wrote the paper: BMB MLK NNM NS MH NB GE.