About the Authors

Rachel M. Ostroff

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel M. Ostroff, Michael R. Mehan

rostroff@somalogic.com

Affiliation Clinical Research, SomaLogic Inc., Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Michael R. Mehan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel M. Ostroff, Michael R. Mehan

Affiliation Clinical Research, SomaLogic Inc., Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Alex Stewart

Affiliation Clinical Research, SomaLogic Inc., Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Deborah Ayers

Affiliation Clinical Research, SomaLogic Inc., Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Edward N. Brody

Affiliation Clinical Research, SomaLogic Inc., Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Stephen A. Williams

Affiliation Clinical Research, SomaLogic Inc., Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Stephen Levin

Affiliation Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Brad Black

Affiliation Center for Asbestos Related Diseases, Libby, Montana, United States of America

Michael Harbut

Affiliation Environmental Cancer Program, Karmanos Cancer Center, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Michele Carbone

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Chandra Goparaju

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center and Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Harvey I. Pass

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center and Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

RO, MM, AS, DA, EB, and SW are employees of SomaLogic. SomaLogic funded the proteomic analyses. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors have no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RO MM AS EB SW HP. Performed the experiments: DA CG. Analyzed the data: RO MM AS EB SW CG HP. Wrote the paper: RO MM AS HP. Study participant recruitment, sample and clinical data collection: SL BB MH HP. Pathologic diagnosis and staging: MC HP.