About the Authors

Shuchi Anand

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

sanand2@stanford.edu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Maria E. Montez-Rath

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Jialin Han

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Software

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Pablo Garcia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Julie Bozeman

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Ascend Clinical Laboratory, Redwood City, California, United States of America

Russell Kerschmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Ascend Clinical Laboratory, Redwood City, California, United States of America

Paul Beyer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Ascend Clinical Laboratory, Redwood City, California, United States of America

Julie Parsonnet

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Glenn M. Chertow

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: JB, RK and PB are employed by Ascend Clinical Laboratories (http://clinical.aclab.com/). GMC is on the Board of Satellite Healthcare, a not-for-profit dialysis organization. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.