About the Authors

Kate Morrow Guthrie

Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Morrow Guthrie, Sara Vargas, Julia G. Shaw, Rochelle K. Rosen, Jacob J. van den Berg

kate.guthrie@lifespan.org

Affiliations Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Behavioral & Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Sara Vargas

Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Morrow Guthrie, Sara Vargas, Julia G. Shaw, Rochelle K. Rosen, Jacob J. van den Berg

Affiliations Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Julia G. Shaw

Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Morrow Guthrie, Sara Vargas, Julia G. Shaw, Rochelle K. Rosen, Jacob J. van den Berg

Affiliation Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Rochelle K. Rosen

Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Morrow Guthrie, Sara Vargas, Julia G. Shaw, Rochelle K. Rosen, Jacob J. van den Berg

Affiliations Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Behavioral & Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Jacob J. van den Berg

Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Morrow Guthrie, Sara Vargas, Julia G. Shaw, Rochelle K. Rosen, Jacob J. van den Berg

Current address: Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, and the Division of Infectious Diseases, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Affiliations Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Patrick F. Kiser

Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Karen Buckheit

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation ImQuest BioSciences, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Dana Bregman

Current address: Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, United States of America

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Lara Thompson

Current address: School of Naturopathic Medicine, Bastyr University, Kenmore, Washington, United States of America

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Kathleen Jensen

Current address: School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centers for Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Todd Johnson

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Robert W. Buckheit

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation ImQuest BioSciences, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

ImQuest BioSciences, Inc., was the institution that received the funding from NIH, headed by Principal Investigator Robert W. Buckheit and Co-Investigator Karen Buckheit, who are both employed by ImQuest BioSciences, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMG RKR PFK KB DB LT. Performed the experiments: KMG RKR DB LT KJ. Analyzed the data: KMG SV JGS RKR JJV PFK DB LT KJ TJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PFK KB TJ RWB. Wrote the paper: KMG SV JGS RKR JJV PFK KB RWB.