About the Authors

Michael A. McClurkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael A. McClurkin, Leah Rae Yingling

Current Address: Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leah Rae Yingling

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael A. McClurkin, Leah Rae Yingling

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Colby Ayers

Affiliation Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Rebecca Cooper-McCann

Current Address: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Visakha Suresh

Current Address: Address: Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ann Nothwehr

Affiliation University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Debbie S. Barrington

Current Address: Address: Department of Human Science, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Affiliation Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tiffany M. Powell-Wiley

tiffany.powell-wiley@nih.gov

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have the following interests: Funding for Rebecca Cooper-McCann is provided through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program, a public-private partnership supported jointly by the NIH and generous contributions to the Foundation for the NIH from Pfizer Inc, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., Mr. and Mrs. Joel S. Marcus, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as well as other private donors. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP MM DB CA. Analyzed the data: MM LY VS RC CA AN DB TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CA AN. Wrote the paper: MM LY TP.