About the Authors
- Georgios D. Kitsios
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Affiliations Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Navdeep Tangri
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Affiliations Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Peter J. Castaldi
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Affiliations Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Modeling, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- John P. A. Ioannidis
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* E-mail: jioannid@stanford.edu
Affiliations Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine and Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Ioannina, Greece, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Modeling, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Georgios D. Kitsios was a recipient of a Pfizer/Tufts Medical Center career development award. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GK NT PC JPAI. Performed the experiments: GK NT PC JPAI. Analyzed the data: GK NT PC JPAI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK NT PC JPAI. Wrote the paper: GK NT PC JPAI.