About the Authors

Quang Trong Le

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Sahar Lotfi-Emran

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Hae-Ki Min

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Lawrence B. Schwartz

lbschwar@vcu.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QTL LBS. Performed the experiments: QTL SLE HKM. Analyzed the data: QTL LBS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QTL SLE HKM. Wrote the paper: QTL SLE HKM LBS.