About the Authors
- Ting Gong
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* E-mail: ting.gong@novartis.com
Affiliation Biomarker Development, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nicole Hartmann
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Affiliation Biomarker Development, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Isaac S. Kohane
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Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Volker Brinkmann
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Affiliation Department of Autoimmunity, Transplantation and Inflammation, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Frank Staedtler
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Affiliation Biomarker Development, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Martin Letzkus
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Affiliation Biomarker Development, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Sandrine Bongiovanni
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Affiliation Biomarker Development, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Joseph D. Szustakowski
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Affiliation Biomarker Development, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
TG, NH, VB, FS, ML, SB, JS are employees of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, who funded the study. 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: TG JS IK VB. Performed the experiments: TG JS. Analyzed the data: TG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS NH ML SB. Wrote the paper: TG NH IK VB FS JS. Generated data: FS NH ML SB.