About the Authors
- Mingli Qi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mingli Qi, Janice A. Williams
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Janice A. Williams
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mingli Qi, Janice A. Williams
Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, Epithelial Biology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Hin Chu
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Xuemin Chen
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jaang-Jiun Wang
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Lingmei Ding
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Ehiole Akhirome
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Xiaoyun Wen
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Lynne A. Lapierre
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Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, Epithelial Biology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- James R. Goldenring
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* E-mail: jim.goldenring@vanderbilt.edu (JRG); paul.spearman@emory.edu (PS)
Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, Epithelial Biology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Paul Spearman
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* E-mail: jim.goldenring@vanderbilt.edu (JRG); paul.spearman@emory.edu (PS)
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MQ JAW HC XW LAL JRG PS. Performed the experiments: MQ JAW HC XC JJW LD EA XW LAL. Analyzed the data: MQ JAW HC JJW LAL JRG PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MQ JAW HC XC JJW LD XW LAL JRG PS. Wrote the paper: MQ JAW JRG PS.