About the Authors

Sang Goo Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang Goo Lee, Mingqian Huang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mingqian Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang Goo Lee, Mingqian Huang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nikolaus D. Obholzer

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shan Sun

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shanghai Eye and ENT Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Wenyan Li

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shanghai Eye and ENT Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Marco Petrillo

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pu Dai

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Yi Zhou

Affiliation Stem Cell Program and Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital Boston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Douglas A. Cotanche

Affiliation Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sean G. Megason

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Huawei Li

Zheng-Yi_Chen@meei.harvard.edu (ZYC); hwli@shmu.edu.cn (HL)

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shanghai Eye and ENT Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Zheng-Yi Chen

Zheng-Yi_Chen@meei.harvard.edu (ZYC); hwli@shmu.edu.cn (HL)

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGL MH NDO WL DAC SGM PD HL ZYC. Performed the experiments: SGL MH NDO SS WL MP YZ DAC. Analyzed the data: SGL MH NDO SS WL MP DAC SGM PD HL ZYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NDO YZ DAC. Wrote the paper: SGL MH NDO WL YZ DAC SGM PD HL ZYC.