About the Authors

Heather N. Reich

hreich@uhnresearch.on.ca

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David Tritchler

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Statistics, Ontario Cancer Institute, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Daniel C. Cattran

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Andrew M. Herzenberg

† Deceased.

Felix Eichinger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Anissa Boucherot

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Anna Henger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Celine C. Berthier

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Viji Nair

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Clemens D. Cohen

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Institute of Physiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

James W. Scholey

Contributed equally to this work with: James W. Scholey, Matthias Kretzler

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Matthias Kretzler

Contributed equally to this work with: James W. Scholey, Matthias Kretzler

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HNR DT AMH FE AH CB CDC JWS MK. Performed the experiments: HNR AB AH CDC. Analyzed the data: HNR DT DC FE AB AH CB VN JWS MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC AMH CDC JWS MK. Wrote the paper: HNR JWS MK. Reviewed the manuscript: AMH.