About the Authors
- Heather E. Wheeler
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America
- E. Jeffrey Metter
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Affiliations Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Medstar Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Toshiko Tanaka
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Affiliations Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Medstar Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Devin Absher
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Affiliation HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
- John Higgins
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Jacob M. Zahn
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Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Julie Wilhelmy
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Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Ronald W. Davis
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Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Andrew Singleton
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Affiliation Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Richard M. Myers
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Affiliation HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
- Luigi Ferrucci
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Affiliations Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Medstar Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Stuart K. Kim
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* E-mail: kim@cmgm.stanford.edu
Affiliations Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Two of the authors (HEW and SKK) are listed as the inventors in a patent filed by the Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing titled: A Genetic Test for Healthy Kidney Aging (Docket 08-360).
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HEW SKK. Performed the experiments: HEW JW. Analyzed the data: HEW EJM JMZ SKK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EJM TT DA JH RWD AS RMM LF SKK. Wrote the paper: HEW SKK.