About the Authors

Kitchener D. Wilson

Contributed equally to this work with: Kitchener D. Wilson, Zongjin Li

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Zongjin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Kitchener D. Wilson, Zongjin Li

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Roger Wagner

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Patrick Yue

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Phillip Tsao

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Gergana Nestorova

Affiliation Human Immune Monitoring Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Mei Huang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

David L. Hirschberg

Affiliation Human Immune Monitoring Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Paul G. Yock

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Thomas Quertermous

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Joseph C. Wu

joewu@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PT JW. Performed the experiments: KW ZL PY GN MH. Analyzed the data: TQ RW KW JW ZL PY PGY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TQ PT PY GN DH. Wrote the paper: RW KW JW. Other: The Human Immune Monitoring Center at Stanford University facility played a role in the design of the experiments and discussion of the results. The Human Immune Monitoring Center at Stanford University reviewed the final draft of the paper. Director of the Human Immune Monitoring Center at Stanford University that supervised a technician that conducted all the Agilent microarray experiments and data analysis: DH.