About the Authors

Eric K. Kwong

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Kyung-Mi Kim

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Patrick J. Penalosa

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jefferson Y. Chan

jchan@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EKK JYC. Performed the experiments: EKK PJP KMK. Analyzed the data: EKK JYC. Wrote the paper: EKK JYC.