About the Authors

Gerard K. Nguyen

Affiliation Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Brian H. Hwang

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian H. Hwang, Yiqiang Zhang

Affiliation Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yiqiang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian H. Hwang, Yiqiang Zhang

Affiliations City of Hope, Functional Genomics Core, Duarte, California, United States of America, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

John F. W. Monahan

Affiliation Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gabrielle B. Davis

Affiliation Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yong Suk Lee

Affiliation Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Neli P. Ragina

Affiliation Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Charles Wang

Affiliation City of Hope, Functional Genomics Core, Duarte, California, United States of America

Zhao Y. Zhou

Affiliation Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Young Kwon Hong

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ryan M. Spivak

Affiliation Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alex K. Wong

alex.wong@med.usc.edu

Affiliation Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKW GKN. Performed the experiments: GKN BHH ZYZ. Analyzed the data: GKN BHH YZ NPR CW AKW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ CW YSL GBD JFWM YKH. Wrote the paper: GKN BHH YZ NPR RMS AKW.