About the Authors

Jeffery A. Dusek

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffery A. Dusek, Hasan H. Otu

Affiliations Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Health and Healing, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Hasan H. Otu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffery A. Dusek, Hasan H. Otu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, BIDMC Genomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ann L. Wohlhueter

Affiliation Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Manoj Bhasin

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, BIDMC Genomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Luiz F. Zerbini

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, BIDMC Genomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marie G. Joseph

Affiliation BIDMC Genomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Herbert Benson

tliberma@bidmc.harvard.edu (TAL); hbenson@partners.org (HB)

Affiliations Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Towia A. Libermann

tliberma@bidmc.harvard.edu (TAL); hbenson@partners.org (HB)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, BIDMC Genomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HO TL JD HB. Performed the experiments: JD AW LZ MJ. Analyzed the data: HO TL JD AW MB HB. Wrote the paper: HO TL JD AW MB HB.