About the Authors

Efrat Eliyahu

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Theodore Wolfson

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yi Ge

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Karl J. Jepsen

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Edward H. Schuchman

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Calogera M. Simonaro

calogera.simonaro@mssm.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMS. Performed the experiments: EE TW YG CMS. Analyzed the data: CMS EHS EE TW KJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMS KJ EHS. Wrote the paper: CMS EHS.