About the Authors

Hans Rempel

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Bing Sun

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cyrus Calosing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Linda Abadjian

Affiliation Department of Mental Health, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alexander Monto

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lynn Pulliam

lynn.pulliam@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical editing of manuscript for intellectual content: LP AM BS. Conceived and designed the experiments: LP HR. Performed the experiments: BS CC LA. Analyzed the data: BS CC LA HR LP. Wrote the paper: HR.