About the Authors

Meredith L. Nahm

meredith.nahm@duke.edu

Affiliation Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Carl F. Pieper

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Maureen M. Cunningham

Affiliation Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLN CFP. Performed the experiments: CFP. Analyzed the data: MLN CFP. Wrote the paper: MLN CFP MMC.