About the Authors

Richa Sharma

rsharm23@jhmi.edu (RS); shawn.acheson@duke.edu (SKA)

Affiliation School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alexandra Rosenberg

Affiliation School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ellen R. Bennett

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Daniel T. Laskowitz

Affiliations School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Shawn K. Acheson

rsharm23@jhmi.edu (RS); shawn.acheson@duke.edu (SKA)

Affiliations Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Laskowitz serves as a consultant for Astute Medical, Inc., which performed the antibody-­based assays used in this study. The study was subsidized by a research grant from Astute Medical, Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RS DTL. Data curation: RS DTL SKA. Formal analysis: RS DTL SKA. Funding acquisition: DTL. Investigation: RS DTL. Methodology: RS ERB DTL SKA. Project administration: ERB DTL. Resources: ERB DTL. Supervision: ERB DTL. Validation: RS AR ERB DTL SKA. Visualization: RS SKA. Writing – original draft: RS AR SKA. Writing – review & editing: RS AR ERB DTL SKA.