About the Authors

Eli Puterman

eli.puterman@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jue Lin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Blackburn

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Aoife O'Donovan

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nancy Adler

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elissa Epel

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

EB, EE, and JL are co-founders of a diagnostics company related to telomere biology, and own stock in the company.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB NA EE. Performed the experiments: JL AO EE. Analyzed the data: EP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL EB EE. Wrote the paper: EP JL EB AO NA EE.