About the Authors

Kamyar Zahedi

Affiliation Center on Genetics of Transport and the Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Sharon Barone

Affiliation Center on Genetics of Transport and the Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Jie Xu

Affiliation Center on Genetics of Transport and the Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Manoocher Soleimani

Manoocher.Soleimani@uc.edu

Affiliation Center on Genetics of Transport and the Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS. Performed the experiments: KZ JX SB. Analyzed the data: KZ SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS KZ SB. Wrote the paper: MS.