About the Authors

Wanchang Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Wanchang Cui, Jinfang Ma

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jinfang Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Wanchang Cui, Jinfang Ma

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yulei Wang

Affiliation Genomic Assays R&D, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Shyam Biswal

sbiswal@jhsph.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

A report of invention for use of plasma miRNA signature for radiation exposure has been filled by JHU. YW is an employee of Life Technologies. 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: WC SB. Performed the experiments: WC JM. Analyzed the data: JM YW WC SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC JM YW SB. Wrote the paper: WC JM SB.