About the Authors

Rinki Murphy

R.Murphy@auckland.ac.nz

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Maurice Wilkins Centre for Biodiscovery, Auckland, New Zealand

Simon Thornley

Affiliation Population Health Directorate, Counties Manukau District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand

Janak de Zoysa

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Renal Medicine, Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand

Lisa K. Stamp

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

Nicola Dalbeth

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Tony R. Merriman

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM ND TM. Performed the experiments: RM JD LS ND TM. Analyzed the data: ST. Wrote the paper: RM ST JD LS ND TM.