About the Authors

Michael P. Gustafson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Nathan P. Staff

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Svetlana Bornschlegl

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Greg W. Butler

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Mary L. Maas

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Mohamed Kazamel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Adeel Zubair

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Dennis A. Gastineau

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Department of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Anthony J. Windebank

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Allan B. Dietz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dietz.allan@mayo.edu

Affiliations Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

MPG and ABD are inventors of technology used as a tool in this research (Methods and materials for assessing immune system profiles, #WO2014078272 A1). While this invention is not the target of these studies, value may be brought to this invention by demonstrating new properties to the invention. MPG, ABD, and the Mayo Clinic have rights to this invention and in the future the invention may be licensed or sold to the benefit of the investigators or Mayo Clinic. This technology is not currently licensed. We confirm that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.