About the Authors

Carlos J. Camacho

ccamacho@pitt.edu (CJC); ascher@pitt.edu (DPA)

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yasuhiro Katsumata

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dana P. Ascherman

ccamacho@pitt.edu (CJC); ascher@pitt.edu (DPA)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJC DPA. Performed the experiments: CJC YK DPA. Analyzed the data: CJC YK DPA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJC YK DPA. Wrote the paper: CJC DPA.