About the Authors

Galyna Bondar

Contributed equally to this work with: Galyna Bondar, Martin Cadeiras

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Martin Cadeiras

Contributed equally to this work with: Galyna Bondar, Martin Cadeiras

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Nicholas Wisniewski

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Jetrina Maque

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Jay Chittoor

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Eleanor Chang

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Maral Bakir

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Charlotte Starling

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Khurram Shahzad

Affiliations Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Peipei Ping

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Elaine Reed

Affiliation University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Mario Deng

mdeng@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB MC NW KS PP ER MD. Performed the experiments: JM JC EC MB CS. Analyzed the data: GB MC NW EC MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB MC NW. Wrote the paper: GB MC NW MD. Drafted the manuscript: JM JC EC MB CS. Carried out the molecular genetic studies: KS. Helped develop the overall study hypothesis: PP ER MD.