About the Authors
- Kuang-Yuh Chyu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kuang-Yuh Chyu, Xiaoning Zhao
Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Xiaoning Zhao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kuang-Yuh Chyu, Xiaoning Zhao
Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Paul C. Dimayuga
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Jianchang Zhou
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Xiaojun Li
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Juliana Yano
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Wai Man Lio
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Lai Fan Chan
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Jonathan Kirzner
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Portia Trinidad
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Bojan Cercek
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Prediman K. Shah
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* E-mail: ShahP@cshs.org
Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Shah is a co-inventor of apoB-100 peptide vaccines and has assigned patent rights to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Shah is a scientific advisor to Cardiovax Inc. The funding support from Cardiovax does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have no competing interests to declare.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KYC XZ PCD BC PKS. Performed the experiments: JZ XL JY WML LFC JK PT. Analyzed the data: KYC XZ PCD JZ XL JY WML LFC JK PT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ JZ XL JY WML LFC JK PT. Wrote the paper: KYC PCD PKS.