About the Authors
- Jeffrey Krauss
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Ramin Farzaneh-Far
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Eli Puterman
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Beeya Na
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Affiliation Section of General Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Jue Lin
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Elissa Epel
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Elizabeth Blackburn
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Mary A. Whooley
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* E-mail: Mary.Whooley@ucsf.edu
Affiliations Section of General Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Elissa Epel, PhD; Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD; and Jue Lin, PhD are the co-founders of Telome Health, a company focused on telomere length biology. The company has a product that provides researchers with an assay service for telomere length measurements from samples of human DNA, as part of clinical and other research studies. The product is based off the “Cawthon qPCR assay,” and Telome Health has the rights to the patent on this technology. Telome Health does not have any other patents. The authors' involvement in Telome Health does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Jeffrey Krauss; Ramin Farzaneh-Far, MD, MAS; Beeya Na, MPH; Eli Puterman, PhD; and Mary Whooley, MD, have no relevant financial interest in the manuscript and declare that they have no other competing interests.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MW. Performed the experiments: MW JL EB. Analyzed the data: MW JK BN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB JL BN. Wrote the paper: JK MW EP RF JL EE EB. Reviewed manuscript: JK MW EP RF JL EE EB BN.