About the Authors

Alex Thompson

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Scott Devine

scott.devine@gmail.com

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Merck, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, United States of America

Mike Kattan

Affiliation Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Andrew Muir

Affiliation Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Devine is an employee of Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Inc., the manufacturer of boceprevir. Drs Kattan, Thompson and Muir are or have been paid consultants of Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Inc., the manufacturer of boceprevir. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD AT MK AM. Performed the experiments: SD AT MK AM. Analyzed the data: SD MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SD AT MK AM. Wrote the paper: SD AT MK AM.