About the Authors

Emmanuel Opoku

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Opoku, Stela Berisha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Stela Berisha

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Opoku, Stela Berisha

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

Current address: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Center for Human Genetics, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Gregory Brubaker

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Peggy Robinet

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: ProEd Communications, Inc., Beachwood, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jonathan D. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

smithj4@ccf.org

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: J.D.S through the Cleveland Clinic is an inventor for a patent (US8536117B2) entitled "Oxidant resistant apolipoprotein A-1 and mimetic peptides. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.