About the Authors

Minh-Hieu T. Pham

Affiliations Center for Personalized Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Gregory B. Bonello

Affiliations Center for Personalized Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

John Castiblanco

Affiliations Center for Personalized Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Tuan Le

Affiliations Center for Personalized Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jose Sigala

Affiliations Center for Personalized Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Weijing He

Affiliations Center for Personalized Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Srinivas Mummidi

mummidi@uthscsa.edu

Affiliations Center for Personalized Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors hereby state that the co-authors of the aforementioned article, Srinivas Mummidi and Weijing He, are PLOS ONE Editorial Board Members. 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: SM. Performed the experiments: MTP GBB JS. Analyzed the data: MTP JC TL WH SM. Wrote the paper: JC WH SM. Approved manuscript: MTP GBB JC TL JS WH SM.