About the Authors

Olga Rafikova

Affiliations Division of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Mary L. Meadows

Affiliation Vascular Biology Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Jason M. Kinchen

Affiliation Metabolon, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Robert P. Mohney

Affiliation Metabolon, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Emin Maltepe

Affiliation Division of Neonatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ankit A. Desai

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Jason X.-J. Yuan

Affiliations Division of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Joe G. N. Garcia

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Jeffrey R. Fineman

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ruslan Rafikov

ruslanrafikov@email.arizona.edu

Affiliations Division of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Stephen M. Black

Affiliations Division of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

Involvement of Metabolon inc. in this manuscript does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR SMB. Performed the experiments: OR MLM. Analyzed the data: JMK RR AAD JXJY JGNG EM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMK RPM SMB. Wrote the paper: RR SMB JRF OR.