About the Authors

Kevin C. Miranda

Affiliation Program in Membrane Biology, Division of Nephrology & Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel T. Bond

Affiliation Program in Membrane Biology, Division of Nephrology & Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joshua Z. Levin

Affiliation Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xian Adiconis

Affiliation Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrey Sivachenko

Affiliation Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carsten Russ

Affiliation Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dennis Brown

Affiliation Program in Membrane Biology, Division of Nephrology & Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chad Nusbaum

Affiliation Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Leileata M. Russo

Lrusso@mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Program in Membrane Biology, Division of Nephrology & Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

LMR and KCM have stock options in Exosome Diagnostics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCM DTB JZL XA AS CR DB CN LMR. Performed the experiments: KCM DTB JZL XA AS DB CN LMR. Analyzed the data: KCM DTB JZL XA AS DB CN LMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCM JZL XA AS CR DB CN LMR. Wrote the paper: KCM DTB JZL XA AS CR DB CN LMR.