About the Authors

S. Samuel Weigt

sweigt@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiaoyan Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Vyacheslav Palchevskiy

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Aric L. Gregson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Naman Patel

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ariss DerHovanessian

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael Y. Shino

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David M. Sayah

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shirin Birjandi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Joseph P. Lynch III

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rajan Saggar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Abbas Ardehali

Affiliation Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David J. Ross

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Scott M. Palmer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David Elashoff

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

John A. Belperio

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SSW XW ALG AD MYS DMS SB JPL RS AA DJR SMP DE JAB. Formal analysis: SSW XW DE. Funding acquisition: SSW SMP JAB. Investigation: SSW VP NP. Methodology: SSW XW VP DE JAB. Writing – original draft: SSW XW. Writing – review & editing: VP ALG NP AD MYS DMS SB JPL RS AA DJR SMP DE JAB.