About the Authors

Elahe A. Mostaghel

Contributed equally to this work with: Elahe A. Mostaghel, Keith R. Solomon

Affiliations Division of Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Keith R. Solomon

Contributed equally to this work with: Elahe A. Mostaghel, Keith R. Solomon

keith.solomon@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Urology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kristine Pelton

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael R. Freeman

Affiliations Department of Urology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

R. Bruce Montgomery

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAM KRS KP MRF RBM. Performed the experiments: EAM KRS KP. Analyzed the data: EAM KRS KP MRF RBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EAM KRS KP. Wrote the paper: EAM KRS KP MRF RBM.