About the Authors

Bo Wei

bo_wei@merck.com

Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories, Translational Molecular Biomarkers, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Lei Chen

Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories, Translational Molecular Biomarkers, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Miho Kibukawa

Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories, Translational Molecular Biomarkers, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

John Kang

Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories, Biometrics Research, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Hetty Waskin

Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories, Infectious Disease, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Matthew Marton

Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories, Companion Diagnostics, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors are employees of Merck Research Laboratories that funded this study. All authors have Merck stock awards. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BW MM. Data curation: BW JK. Formal analysis: BW JK. Investigation: BW LC MK MM JK. Methodology: BW LC MK MM. Project administration: BW. Resources: HW LC MK. Supervision: BW MM. Validation: BW LC MK. Visualization: BW. Writing – original draft: BW. Writing – review & editing: BW JK HW MM.