About the Authors
- Jaydip Das Gupta
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Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Ka-Cheung Luk
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Affiliation Abbott Diagnostics, Emerging Pathogens and Virus Discovery, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Ning Tang
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Affiliation Abbott Molecular, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States of America
- Christina Gaughan
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Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Eric A. Klein
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Affiliation Glickman Urologic and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Eugene S. Kandel
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Affiliation Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- John Hackett Jr
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Affiliation Abbott Diagnostics, Emerging Pathogens and Virus Discovery, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Robert H. Silverman
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* E-mail: silverr@ccf.org
Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
Competing Interests
KL, NT and JH are employees and shareholders of Abbott Laboratories. JDG, EAK, and RHS are inventors on patents licensed to Abbott Laboratories that relate to XMRV. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JDG KL NT ESK JH RHS. Performed the experiments: JDG KL NT CG ESK. Analyzed the data: JDG KL NT ESK JH RHS. Wrote the paper: JDG KL NT EAK ESK JH RHS.