About the Authors

Kyle J. Wolf

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ryan O. Emerson

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jeanette Pingel

Current address: Department of Pediatrics-Rheumatology, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

R. Mark Buller

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Richard J. DiPaolo

rdipaolo@slu.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

ROE has full-time employment and equity ownership at Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: KJW RMB JP RJD. Performed the experiments: KJW. Analyzed the data: KJW ROE RJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJD ROE RMB JP. Wrote the paper: KJW ROE RMB RJD.