About the Authors

Andreas D. Kistler

andreas.kistler@usz.ch

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland

Andreas L. Serra

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland

Justyna Siwy

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics and Therapeutics AG, Hannover, Germany

Diane Poster

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland

Fabienne Krauer

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland

Vicente E. Torres

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Michal Mrug

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jared J. Grantham

Affiliation Kidney Institute and Department of Internal Medicine, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Kyongtae T. Bae

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James E. Bost

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Booz Allen Hamilton, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

William Mullen

Affiliation BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Rudolf P. Wüthrich

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland

Harald Mischak

Affiliations Mosaiques Diagnostics and Therapeutics AG, Hannover, Germany, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Arlene B. Chapman

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: HM is the founder and coowner of Mosaiques Diagnostics, who developed the CE-MS technology. JS is an employee of Mosaiques Diagnostics. MosaiquesVisu software is a product of Mosaiques Diagnostics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Furthermore, JEB is an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, but his employement there started only after all his contributions to this manuscript, which he made as an employee of University of Pittsburgh. This does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADK ALS HM ABC. Performed the experiments: ADK JS WM. Analyzed the data: JS ADK HM DP FK JEB WM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADK ALS VET MM JJG KTB JEB RPW HM ABC. Wrote the paper: ADK ALS HM ABC.