About the Authors

Jennifer A. McCaughan

jamccaughan@doctors.org.uk

Affiliations Nephrology Research Group, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Regional Nephrology Unit, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Seamus Duffy

Affiliation Nephrology Research Group, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Thomas O'Hagan

Affiliation Nephrology Research Group, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Aisling E. Courtney

Affiliation Regional Nephrology Unit, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Richard Borrows

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Peter J. Conlon

Affiliation On behalf of the Dublin Kidney Transplant Research Group, Renal Unit, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Alexander P. Maxwell

Affiliations Nephrology Research Group, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Regional Nephrology Unit, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Amy Jayne McKnight

Affiliation Nephrology Research Group, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAM SD APM AJM. Performed the experiments: JAM SD TOH. Analyzed the data: JAM AEC AJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAM RB PJC APM AJM. Wrote the paper: JAM AEC APM AJM.