About the Authors

Anders Carlander

Contributed equally to this work with: Anders Carlander, Ann-Sophie Lindqvist Bagge

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

anders.carlander@gu.se

Affiliations SOM Institute, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Mats Lekander

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ ML, GJGA, ST and ROB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Gordon J. G. Asmundson

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ ML, GJGA, ST and ROB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

Steven Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ ML, GJGA, ST and ROB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Roger Olofsson Bagge

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ ML, GJGA, ST and ROB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ann-Sophie Lindqvist Bagge

Contributed equally to this work with: Anders Carlander, Ann-Sophie Lindqvist Bagge

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

Affiliations Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

Co-author ROB has received institutional research grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and SkyLineDx, speaker honorarium from Roche and Pfizer and has served on advisory boards for Amgen, BD/BARD, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), Merck Sharp & Dohme(MSD), Novartis, Roche and Sanofi Genzyme. None of the work is linked in any way to the current manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.