About the Authors
- Taylor J. Jensen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Taylor J. Jensen, Tricia Zwiefelhofer, Roger C. Tim
Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Tricia Zwiefelhofer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Taylor J. Jensen, Tricia Zwiefelhofer, Roger C. Tim
Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Roger C. Tim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Taylor J. Jensen, Tricia Zwiefelhofer, Roger C. Tim
Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Željko Džakula
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Sung K. Kim
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Amin R. Mazloom
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Zhanyang Zhu
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- John Tynan
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Tim Lu
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Graham McLennan
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Glenn E. Palomaki
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Affiliation Women and Infants Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Jacob A. Canick
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Affiliation Women and Infants Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Paul Oeth
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Cosmin Deciu
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Dirk van den Boom
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Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Mathias Ehrich
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* E-mail: mehrich@sequenom.com
Affiliation Research and Development, Sequenom Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
TJJ, TZ, RCT, ZD, SKK, ARM, ZZ, JT, TL, GM, PO, CD, DvdB, and ME are all employees of Sequenom, Inc. or Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sequenom, Inc. Each of these authors are also shareholders of Sequenom, Inc. GEP and JAC were members of the Sequenom Clinical Advisory Board for 6 months and resigned when sample collection for this study was funded. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PO CD DvdB ME GEP JAC. Performed the experiments: TJJ TZ RCT JT. Analyzed the data: TJJ ZD SKK ARM ZZ TL CD ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GEP JAC. Wrote the paper: TJJ TZ GM ME.