About the Authors

Robert A. Kaiser

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert A. Kaiser, Daniel F. Carlson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Midwest Fetal Care Center, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Daniel F. Carlson

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert A. Kaiser, Daniel F. Carlson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Recombinetics, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Kari L. Allen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Dennis A. Webster

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Recombinetics, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Caitlin J. VanLith

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Clara T. Nicolas

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Lori G. Hillin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Yue Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Catherine W. Kaiser

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

William R. Wahoff

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Raymond D. Hickey

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Adrienne L. Watson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Recombinetics, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Shelley R. Winn

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Beat Thöny

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Douglas R. Kern

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Recombinetics, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Cary O. Harding

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Joseph B. Lillegard

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

jlillegard@msn.com

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Midwest Fetal Care Center, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Pediatric Surgical Associates, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

DRK, DFC, ALW, and DAW are employed by Recombinetics, Inc., which controls the commercial rights to the animal model. The conflict had no impact on this study and does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.