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"The authors declare the following competing financial interest(s): Mr. Michael Kappler and Dr. Hao Chen are employees of Biocrede Inc. Dr. Hao Chen has an equity position in this start-up company. The company received the STTR grant cited from the NIH. The remaining authors have no equity position in Biocrede Inc. and work solely for the University of Michigan. A subaward from Biocrede to the University of Michigan funded most of the research described in this manuscript."

"We thank the National Institutes of Health for supporting these studies via grant # NIH-R42-DK100161-02. The authors declare the following competing financial interest(s): Mr. Michael Kappler and Dr. Hao Chen are employees of Biocrede Inc. Dr. Hao Chen has an equity position in this start-up company. The company received the STTR grant cited from the NIH. The remaining authors have no equity position in Biocrede Inc. and work solely for the University of Michigan. A subaward from Biocrede to the University of Michigan funded most of the research described in this manuscript."