About the Authors

Martha L. Slattery

marty.slattery@hsc.utah.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Abbie Lundgreen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Bill Welbourn

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Christopher Corcoran

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Roger K. Wolff

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS RKW. Performed the experiments: MS RKW. Analyzed the data: AL BW CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW CC. Wrote the paper: MS.