About the Authors

Faten Shaeib

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Sana N. Khan

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Iyad Ali

Affiliations Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine

Tohid Najafi

Affiliations Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Dhiman Maitra

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Ibrahim Abdulhamid

Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan

Ghassan M. Saed

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Subramaniam Pennathur

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Husam M. Abu-Soud

habusoud@med.wayne.edu

Affiliations Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HMAS SP GS. Performed the experiments: FS SK IA TN DM. Analyzed the data: FS IA DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IA SP. Wrote the paper: FS SK HMAS.