About the Authors

Joseph Lucas

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Lucas, Holly K. Dressman

Affiliation Information Initiative at Duke, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Holly K. Dressman

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Lucas, Holly K. Dressman

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Sunil Suchindran

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Mai Nakamura

Affiliation Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Nelson J. Chao

Affiliations Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Heather Himburg

Affiliation Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Kerry Minor

Affiliation Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Gary Phillips

Affiliation Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Joel Ross

Affiliation Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Majid Abedi

Affiliation Dxterity Diagnostics, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Robert Terbrueggen

Affiliation Dxterity Diagnostics, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

John P. Chute

jchute@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Broad Stem Cell Research Center, Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Joseph Lucas is an employee of Quintiles, Durham, NC. Dr. Lucas and Quintiles have no competing interest or financial disclosures to declare relating to this manuscript. Majid Abedi and Robert Terbrueggen are employees of Dxterity Diagnostics, Los Angeles, CA. Dxterity Diagnostics is developing a diagnostic assay, REDl-Dx, which is a test to estimate levels of absorbed radiation exposure following a nuclear incident. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPC RT JL. Performed the experiments: HKD SS MN HH MA MN. Analyzed the data: JL HKD RT MA KM JPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJC GP JR RT. Wrote the paper: JPC JL RT HKD.