About the Authors

Daren Low

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Arianna K. DeGruttola

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Alexander Poltrak

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Petrozavodsk State University, 185910, Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia, Graduate Program in Genetics, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Atsushi Mizoguchi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

Mari Mino-Kenudson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Emiko Mizoguchi

emizoguchi@mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL EM. Performed the experiments: DL AKD EM. Analyzed the data: DL AKD AP AM MMK EM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP AM. Wrote the paper: DL AP AM MMK EM.