About the Authors

Jonathan D. Proto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Sanofi Genzyme, Framingham, MA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Aiping Lu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine, Steadman Philippon Research Institute, Vail, CO, United States of America

Akaitz Dorronsoro

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Metabolism and Aging, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, United States of America

Alex Scibetta

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America

Paul D. Robbins

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Metabolism and Aging, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, United States of America

Laura J. Niedernhofer

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Metabolism and Aging, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, United States of America

Johnny Huard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

johnny.huard@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine, Steadman Philippon Research Institute, Vail, CO, United States of America

Competing Interests

PDR and LJN are co-founders of Aldabra Biosciences. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS One policies on sharing data and materials.