About the Authors
- Cory Bystrom
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cory Bystrom, Shijun Sheng
Affiliation Cleveland Heart Lab, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Shijun Sheng
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cory Bystrom, Shijun Sheng
Affiliation Thermo Scientific, San Jose, California, United States of America
- Ke Zhang
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Affiliation Quest Diagnostics – Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, California, United States of America
- Michael Caulfield
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Affiliation Quest Diagnostics – Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, California, United States of America
- Nigel J. Clarke
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Affiliation Quest Diagnostics – Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, California, United States of America
- Richard Reitz
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* E-mail: Richard.e.reitz@questdiagnostics.com
Affiliation Quest Diagnostics – Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Cory Bystrom, Shijun Sheng, Ke Zhang, Michael Caulfield, Nigel J. Clarke and Richard Reitz are all employes of the funder Quest Diagnostics. Patent rights for the methods used in this research have been applied for and Quest Diagnostics are offering the tests for IGF-1 and IGF-II as commercial products. Quest Diagnistics may develop additional intellectual property or products in the future that arise from the use of these specific methods in particular patient populations. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CB SS. Performed the experiments: CB SS. Analyzed the data: CB SS KZ RR NC MC. Wrote the paper: CB SS.