About the Authors

Lee Daniel Chaves

Contributed equally to this work with: Lee Daniel Chaves, Lihua Bao

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Lihua Bao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lee Daniel Chaves, Lihua Bao

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Anthony Chang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mark Haas

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Richard John Quigg

rquigg@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LDC LB RJQ. Performed the experiments: LDC LB YW AC. Analyzed the data: LDC LB AC MH RJQ. Wrote the paper: LDC RJQ.