About the Authors
- Margaret Wu
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Affiliation Early Development and Discovery Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, United States of America
- Ge Dai
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Affiliation Early Development and Discovery Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, United States of America
- Jun Yao
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Affiliation Early Development and Discovery Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, United States of America
- Scott Hoyt
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Affiliation Early Development and Discovery Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, United States of America
- Liangsu Wang
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Affiliation Early Development and Discovery Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, United States of America
- James Mu
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* E-mail: yingjun_mu@merck.com
Affiliation Early Development and Discovery Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, United States of America
Competing Interests
All authors are current employees of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, and may own stock or hold stock options in Merck. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JM MW LW. Performed the experiments: MW GD JY. Analyzed the data: MW GD JY JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH. Wrote the paper: JM SH LW.