About the Authors

Xi Chen

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Min Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Daohong Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Wentao Gao

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jun-Lin Guan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Massaki Komatsu

Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan

Xiao-Ming Yin

xmyin@iupui.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC XMY. Performed the experiments: XC ML DC. Analyzed the data: XC XMY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WG JLG MK. Wrote the paper: XC XMY.