About the Authors

Manoj K. Bhasin

Contributed equally to this work with: Manoj K. Bhasin, Jeffery A. Dusek, Bei-Hung Chang

Affiliations Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, BIDMC Genomics and Proteomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffery A. Dusek

Contributed equally to this work with: Manoj K. Bhasin, Jeffery A. Dusek, Bei-Hung Chang

Affiliation Institute for Health and Healing, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Bei-Hung Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Manoj K. Bhasin, Jeffery A. Dusek, Bei-Hung Chang

Affiliations VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marie G. Joseph

Affiliation BIDMC Genomics and Proteomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John W. Denninger

Affiliations Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory L. Fricchione

Affiliations Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Herbert Benson

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Towia A. Libermann

tliberma@bidmc.harvard.edu

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, BIDMC Genomics and Proteomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKB JD HB TL. Performed the experiments: MKB MJ TL. Analyzed the data: MKB JD BC JWD GF HB TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKB JD HB TL. Wrote the paper: MKB JD BC JWD GF HB TL.