About the Authors

Manoj Bhasin

Affiliation Genomics and Proteomics Center, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhen Huang

Affiliation Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Leena Pradhan-Nabzdyk

Affiliation Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Junaid Y. Malek

Affiliation Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Philip J. LoGerfo

Affiliation Genomics and Proteomics Center, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mauricio Contreras

Affiliation Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patrick Guthrie

Affiliation Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eva Csizmadia

Affiliation Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicholas Andersen

Affiliation Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Olivier Kocher

Affiliation Deptartment of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christiane Ferran

flogerfo@bidmc.harvard.edu (FWL); cferran@bidmc.harvard.edu (CF)

Affiliations Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Vascular Biology Research and Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Frank W. LoGerfo

flogerfo@bidmc.harvard.edu (FWL); cferran@bidmc.harvard.edu (CF)

Affiliation Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP-N NA CF FWL. Performed the experiments: ZH JYM MC PG EC NA OK. Analyzed the data: MB PL LP-N. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB PL OK FWL. Wrote the paper: MB LP-N PL CF FWL.