About the Authors

Rachel M. Ostroff

rostroff@somalogic.com (RMO); jwalker@somalogic.com (JJW)

Affiliation SomaLogic, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

William L. Bigbee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wilbur Franklin

Affiliation University of Colorado Cancer Center, University of Colorado at Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Larry Gold

Affiliations SomaLogic, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Mike Mehan

Affiliation SomaLogic, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

York E. Miller

Affiliations University of Colorado Cancer Center, University of Colorado at Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Harvey I. Pass

Affiliation Langone Medical Center and Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

William N. Rom

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, and Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jill M. Siegfried

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alex Stewart

Affiliation SomaLogic, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Jeffrey J. Walker

rostroff@somalogic.com (RMO); jwalker@somalogic.com (JJW)

Affiliation SomaLogic, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Joel L. Weissfeld

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stephen Williams

Affiliation SomaLogic, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Dom Zichi

Affiliation SomaLogic, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Edward N. Brody

Affiliation SomaLogic, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the following conflicts. R Ostroff, L Gold, M Mehan, A Stewart, J Walker, S Williams, D Zichi, E Brody are full-time employees of SomaLogic. This does not alter the authors' adherence to the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Designed the study: RMO LG SW DZ ENB. Provided clinical samples and interpreted results: WLB WF HIP WNR JMS JLW. Analyzed the data: MM AS DZ. Wrote the manuscript with input from all others: RMO JJW. All authors evaluated and interpreted the analyzed data, and critically reviewed the manuscript.