About the Authors

Cara K. Bradley

Contributed equally to this work with: Cara K. Bradley, Christine R. Norton, Ying Chen

Current address: Genea Stem Cells, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Christine R. Norton

Contributed equally to this work with: Cara K. Bradley, Christine R. Norton, Ying Chen

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Ying Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Cara K. Bradley, Christine R. Norton, Ying Chen

Affiliations Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Xianghua Han

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Carmen J. Booth

Affiliation Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jeong Kyo Yoon

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Luke T. Krebs

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Thomas Gridley

gridlt@mmc.org

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CKB CRN TG. Performed the experiments: CKB CRN YC XH CJB. Analyzed the data: CKB CRN YC XH CJB JKY LTK TG. Wrote the paper: CKB TG.