About the Authors

Anthony Fenton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

anthony.fenton1@nhs.net

Affiliations University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Rajkumar Chinnadurai

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, United Kingdom

Latha Gullapudi

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Petros Kampanis

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Binding Site, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Indranil Dasgupta

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom

James Ritchie

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, United Kingdom

Stephen Harding

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Binding Site, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Charles J. Ferro

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Philip A. Kalra

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, United Kingdom

Maarten W. Taal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Paul Cockwell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PC has consulted for and advised the Binding Site, who produce the Freelite assay that has been used to measure the LC MGUS reported in this paper, and who carried out the intact immunoglobulin assays. SH is on the Board of Directors for The Binding Site who produce the Freelite assay used in this paper. MWT is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.