About the Authors

Christo Venkov

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

David Plieth

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Terri Ni

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Amitava Karmaker

Affiliation University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, United States of America

Aihua Bian

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Alfred L. George Jr

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Eric G. Neilson

eric.neilson@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CV DP EGN. Performed the experiments: CV DP. Analyzed the data: CV TN AK EGN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG. Wrote the paper: CV EGN. Statistically evaluated the qRT-PCR data and designed Figure 7: AB.