About the Authors

Peter M. Mihailovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter M. Mihailovic, Wai Man Lio

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Wai Man Lio

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter M. Mihailovic, Wai Man Lio

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Romana Herscovici

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kuang-Yuh Chyu

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Juliana Yano

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiaoning Zhao

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jianchang Zhou

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bo Zhou

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael R. Freeman

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wei Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Prediman K. Shah

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bojan Cercek

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Paul C. Dimayuga

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Paul.Dimayuga@cshs.org

Affiliation Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.