About the Authors

Ansarullah

Affiliation The Sanford Project, Children Health Research Center, Sanford Research/USD, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Yan Lu

Affiliation The Sanford Project, Children Health Research Center, Sanford Research/USD, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Martha Holstein

Affiliation The Sanford Project, Children Health Research Center, Sanford Research/USD, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Brittany DeRuyter

Affiliation The Sanford Project, Children Health Research Center, Sanford Research/USD, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Alex Rabinovitch

Affiliations The Sanford Project, Children Health Research Center, Sanford Research/USD, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Zhiguang Guo

zhiguang.guo@sanfordhealth.org

Affiliations The Sanford Project, Children Health Research Center, Sanford Research/USD, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZG AR. Performed the experiments: A YL MH BD. Analyzed the data: AA MH BD. Wrote the paper: ZG AA AR.