About the Authors

Rodrigo T. Calado

Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo T. Calado, Joshua A. Regal

calador@nhlbi.nih.gov

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joshua A. Regal

Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo T. Calado, Joshua A. Regal

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David E. Kleiner

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David S. Schrump

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Section, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nathan R. Peterson

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Veronica Pons

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

Stephen J. Chanock

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter M. Lansdorp

Affiliation British Columbia Cancer Agency and Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Neal S. Young

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Lansdorp reports being a founding shareholder in Repeat Diagnostics, a company that specializes in length measurement of leukocyte telomeres with the use of flow-FISH.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RTC SJC PML NSY. Performed the experiments: RTC JAR DEK NRP. Analyzed the data: RTC JAR DEK DSS NRP SJC PML NSY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RTC DSS VP SJC PML NSY. Wrote the paper: RTC JAR DEK SJC PML NSY.