About the Authors

Eddie A. James

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Theresa J. Gates

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rebecca E. LaFond

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shinobu Yamamoto

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Chester Ni

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Duy Mai

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Vivian H. Gersuk

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kimberly O’Brien

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Quynh-Anh Nguyen

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Brad Zeitner

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Marion C. Lanteri

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Philip J. Norris

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Damien Chaussabel

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Uma Malhotra

Affiliations Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

William W. Kwok

bkwok@benaroyaresearch.org

Affiliations Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAJ WWK. Performed the experiments: TJG REL DM VHG KO QAN. Analyzed the data: EAJ TJG REL SY CN BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SY CN BZ DC DM MCL PJN. Wrote the paper: EAJ TJG REL VHG MCL PJN UM WWK. Obtained clinical data: UM PJN.