About the Authors

Alain Van Dorsselaer

neil.cashman@vch.ca (NRC); vandors@unistra.fr (AVD)

Affiliation Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse Bio-Organique, Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, UMR7178, Strasbourg, France

Christine Carapito

Affiliation Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse Bio-Organique, Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, UMR7178, Strasbourg, France

François Delalande

Affiliation Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse Bio-Organique, Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, UMR7178, Strasbourg, France

Christine Schaeffer-Reiss

Affiliation Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse Bio-Organique, Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, UMR7178, Strasbourg, France

Daniele Thierse

Affiliation Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse Bio-Organique, Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, UMR7178, Strasbourg, France

Hélène Diemer

Affiliation Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse Bio-Organique, Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, UMR7178, Strasbourg, France

Douglas S. McNair

Affiliation Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Daniel Krewski

Affiliation McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Neil R. Cashman

neil.cashman@vch.ca (NRC); vandors@unistra.fr (AVD)

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

Dr. McNair is Vice-President of Cerner Corporation, which had no role in the initiation or conduct of this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AVD CC NRC. Performed the experiments: CC FD DT HD CS-R. Analyzed the data: AVD CC FD DT HD CS-R. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AVD CC FD DT HD CS-R. Wrote the paper: NRC AVD DSM DK.