About the Authors

Li Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Jia, Benjamin P. Berman

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Norris Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Benjamin P. Berman

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Jia, Benjamin P. Berman

Affiliation Epigenome Center, Keck School of Medicine, Molecular and Computational Biology Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Unnati Jariwala

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Institute of Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiting Yan

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jon P. Cogan

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Institute of Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Allison Walters

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Norris Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ting Chen

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Grant Buchanan

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Baruch Frenkel

frenkel@usc.edu (BF); coetzee@usc.edu (GAC)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Institute of Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gerhard A. Coetzee

frenkel@usc.edu (BF); coetzee@usc.edu (GAC)

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Norris Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJ TC GB BF GAC. Performed the experiments: LJ UJ JPC AW GB. Analyzed the data: LJ BPB UJ XY GB BF. Wrote the paper: BPB BF GAC. Co-directed the study: GB BF GAC.