About the Authors

Ramin Farzaneh-Far

rfarzanehfar@medicine.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jue Lin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elissa Epel

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kyle Lapham

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Blackburn

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mary A. Whooley

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RFF EE EB MAW. Performed the experiments: JL KL. Analyzed the data: RFF MAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RFF JL MAW. Wrote the paper: RFF EE EB MAW.