About the Authors
- Neil Johns
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Affiliation Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Shinji Hatakeyama
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
- Nathan A. Stephens
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Affiliation Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Martin Degen
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
- Simone Degen
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
- Wilfried Frieauff
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
- Christian Lambert
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
- James A. Ross
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Affiliation Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Ronenn Roubenoff
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David J. Glass
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Carsten Jacobi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Carsten Jacobi, Kenneth C. H. Fearon
Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
- Kenneth C. H. Fearon
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Contributed equally to this work with: Carsten Jacobi, Kenneth C. H. Fearon
* E-mail: k.fearon@ed.ac.uk
Affiliation Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Shinji Hatakeyama, Martin Degen, Simone Degen, Wilfried Frieauff, Christian Lambert, Ronenn Roubenoff, David Glass and Carsten Jacobi are all employees of Novartis. Regarding the employees of Novartis, 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: JAR RR DJG CJ KCHF. Performed the experiments: NJ SH NAS MD SD WF CL. Analyzed the data: NJ SH CJ KCHF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD SD WF CL. Wrote the paper: NJ SH NAS JAR RR DJG CJ KCHF. N/A.