About the Authors

Edward E. Winger

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ewinger@sbcglobal.net

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Medicine and Immunology, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Jane L. Reed

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Medicine and Immunology, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Xuhuai Ji

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Stanford University, Human Immune Monitoring Center, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

EW and JR are Co-inventors on US Patent Application #20130245135 entitled: “Methods and compositions for assessing patients with preeclampsia-related conditions using microRNA”. XJ has no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.