About the Authors

Ann Cashion

ann.cashion@nih.gov

Affiliations Department of Acute and Chronic Care, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ansley Stanfill

Affiliation Department of Acute and Chronic Care, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Fridtjof Thomas

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Lijing Xu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Thomas Sutter

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

James Eason

Affiliations Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Mang Ensell

Affiliation Department of Acute and Chronic Care, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Ramin Homayouni

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Ramin Homayouni is an equity holder in Computable Genomix, the supplier of GeneIndexer software used in these studies. 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: AC AS FT LX TS JE ME RH. Performed the experiments: AC AS FT LX TS JE ME RH. Analyzed the data: AC AS FT LX TS JE ME RH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC FT TS JE RH. Wrote the paper: AC AS FT LX TS JE ME RH.