About the Authors
- Deanna Lee
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California San Francisco-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Jaydip Das Gupta
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Affiliation Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Christina Gaughan
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Affiliation Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Imke Steffen
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Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Ning Tang
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Affiliation Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Ka-Cheung Luk
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Affiliation Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Xiaoxing Qiu
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Affiliation Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Anatoly Urisman
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Nicole Fischer
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Affiliation University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Ross Molinaro
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Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Miranda Broz
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Gerald Schochetman
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Affiliation Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Eric A. Klein
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Affiliation Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Don Ganem
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Joseph L. DeRisi
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Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America
- Graham Simmons
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Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- John Hackett Jr
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Affiliation Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Robert H. Silverman
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Affiliation Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Charles Y. Chiu
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* E-mail: charles.chiu@ucsf.edu
Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California San Francisco-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
JDG, EK, JD, RS, KL, XQ and JH are included as inventors on one or more of the following published XMRV-related patent applications which include either the Cleveland Clinic, Abbott Laboratories, or both the Cleveland Clinic and Abbott Laboratories as assignees: International Publication Numbers WO2011/002932; WO2011/002936; WO2010/075414; WO2006/110589; WO2012/024518 and WO2012/024513. Abbott is the sole assignee of issued United States Patent No. 8,183,349 relating to XMRV. NT, KL, XQ, GS and JH are employees of Abbott Laboratories. DG is an employee of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. These potential competing interests do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DL JD G. Simmons JH RS CC. Performed the experiments: DL JDG CG IS NT KL XQ MB. Analyzed the data: DL CG IS NT KL XQ RM AU G. Simmons JH RS CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL CG IS NT KL XQ AU G. Schochetman JD G. Simmons JH RS CC. Wrote the paper: DL IS KL RM NF DG EK JD G. Simmons JH RS CC.