About the Authors

Jeffrey B. Hodgin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey B. Hodgin, Celine C. Berthier, Matthias Kretzler, Heather N. Reich

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Celine C. Berthier

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey B. Hodgin, Celine C. Berthier, Matthias Kretzler, Heather N. Reich

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Rohan John

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Elisabeth Grone

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Stefan Porubsky

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Hermann-Josef Gröne

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Andrew M. Herzenberg

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

James W. Scholey

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, and the Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michelle Hladunewich

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, and the Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Daniel C. Cattran

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, and the Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Matthias Kretzler

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey B. Hodgin, Celine C. Berthier, Matthias Kretzler, Heather N. Reich

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Heather N. Reich

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey B. Hodgin, Celine C. Berthier, Matthias Kretzler, Heather N. Reich

heather.reich@uhn.ca

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, and the Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH CB MK AH HR. Performed the experiments: JH RJ EG SP HG HR. Analyzed the data: JH CB RJ MK HR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH RJ JS MH DC MK HR. Wrote the paper: JH CB HR.