About the Authors

Nicki Tiffin

nickitiffin@imaginet.co.za

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town/Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

Ayton Meintjes

Affiliation Computational Biology, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Rajkumar Ramesar

Affiliation Medical Research Council (MRC) Research Unit for Human Genetics, Division of Human Genetics, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Vladimir B. Bajic

Affiliation Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Brian Rayner

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town/Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

V.B.B. is a partner in the OrionCell company whose product, Dragon Exploration System (DES), has been used in this study. All the other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT BLR. Performed the experiments: NT AM VBB. Analyzed the data: NT AM VBB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR. Wrote the paper: NT. Data acquisition: RR. Clinical expertise and input: BLR.