About the Authors

Maria Koulmanda

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Koulmanda, Manoj Bhasin

mkoulman@bidmc.harvard.edu (MK); tstrom@bidmc.harvard.edu (TS)

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Medicine, Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Manoj Bhasin

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Koulmanda, Manoj Bhasin

Affiliation BIDMC Genomics and Proteomics Center, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zuheir Awdeh

Affiliation Pulsar Clinical Technologies Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andi Qipo

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Medicine, Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhigang Fan

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Medicine, Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dusan Hanidziar

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Medicine, Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Prabhakar Putheti

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Medicine, Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hang Shi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Eva Csizuadia

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Medicine, Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Towia A. Libermann

Affiliation BIDMC Genomics and Proteomics Center, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Terry B. Strom

mkoulman@bidmc.harvard.edu (MK); tstrom@bidmc.harvard.edu (TS)

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Medicine, Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Some of the authors are employed by non-commercial shared resource center of the institute (BIDMC Genomics and Proteomics Center). 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: MK MB TL TS. Performed the experiments: MK ZA AQ ZF DH HS EC MB. Analyzed the data: MK MB TL TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK MB TL TS. Wrote the paper: MK MB TL TS. Preparing samples for RTR-PCR analysis: PP.