About the Authors

Liran I. Shlush

lshlush@tx.technion.ac.il

Affiliations Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Gil Atzmon

Affiliation Institute for Aging Research, Diabetes Research and Training Center, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Roni Weisshof

Affiliation Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Doron Behar

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Guenady Yudkovsky

Affiliations Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Nir Barzilai

Affiliation Institute for Aging Research, Diabetes Research and Training Center, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Karl Skorecki

Affiliations Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LIS NB KS. Performed the experiments: LIS GA RW GY. Analyzed the data: LIS GA RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LIS GA DMB NB. Wrote the paper: LIS KS.