About the Authors

Saet-Byel Jung

Contributed equally to this work with: Saet-Byel Jung, Cuk-Seong Kim, Young-Rae Kim

Current address: Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cuk-Seong Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Saet-Byel Jung, Cuk-Seong Kim, Young-Rae Kim

Current address: Department of Physiology, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Young-Rae Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Saet-Byel Jung, Cuk-Seong Kim, Young-Rae Kim

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Asma Naqvi

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tohru Yamamori

Current address: School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Santosh Kumar

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ajay Kumar

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kaikobad Irani

iranik@upmc.edu

Current address: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S-BJ KI. Performed the experiments: S-BJ C-SK Y-RK AN SK TY AK. Analyzed the data: S-BJ C-SK Y-RK KI. Wrote the paper: KI.