About the Authors

Chuanqing Wu

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Mei Yang

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Human Anatomy, Institute of Neuroscience, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Juan Li

Current address: Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Clinical Research Institute of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Institute of Developmental Immunology, College of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Chengbing Wang

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Ting Cao

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Institute of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Kaixiong Tao

tao_kaixiong@163.com (KXT); baw2001@med.cornell.edu (BW)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Baolin Wang

tao_kaixiong@163.com (KXT); baw2001@med.cornell.edu (BW)

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Development, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CQW BW. Performed the experiments: CQW MY JL BW. Analyzed the data: CQW MY CBW JL KXT BW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CBW TC. Wrote the paper: BW.