About the Authors

Yanjun Dong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jenny S. Pan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Liping Zhang

lipingz@bcm.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

This study was partly funded by Satellite Health. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJD LPZ. Performed the experiments: YJD JP LPZ. Analyzed the data: YJD JP LPZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJD LPZ. Wrote the paper: LPZ JP YJD.