About the Authors

Rita A. Busuttil

Current address: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Denise P. Muñoz

Affiliation Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Ana Maria Garcia

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Francis Rodier

Affiliation Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Woo Ho Kim

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Yousin Suh

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Paul Hasty

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Judith Campisi

Affiliations Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California, United States of America, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jan Vijg

jvijg@aecom.yu.edu

Current address: Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAB PH JC JV. Performed the experiments: RAB DPM AMG FR WHK YS. Analyzed the data: RAB DPM FR WHK YS JC JV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PH. Wrote the paper: RAB YS JC JV.