About the Authors

Susanna L. Lamers

Contributed equally to this work with: Susanna L. Lamers, Marco Salemi

Affiliation BioInfoExperts, Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States of America

Marco Salemi

Contributed equally to this work with: Susanna L. Lamers, Marco Salemi

Affiliations BioInfoExperts, Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Derek C. Galligan

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Positive Health Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Tulio de Oliveira

Affiliations BioInfoExperts, Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States of America, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Gary B. Fogel

Affiliation Natural Selection, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Sara C. Granier

Affiliation BioInfoExperts, Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States of America

Li Zhao

Affiliation The Department of Toxicology, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Joseph N. Brown

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Alanna Morris

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Positive Health Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eliezer Masliah

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael S. McGrath

mmcgrath@hemeonc.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Positive Health Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Pathologica Inc., Burlingame, California, United States of America, AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLL MS JNB MSM. Performed the experiments: DCG TdO LZ AM. Analyzed the data: SLL MS DCG TdO GBF LZ JNB AM EM MSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCG TdO GBF SCG LZ JNB AM EM. Wrote the paper: SLL MS MSM.