About the Authors

Zhenyu Jia

zjia@uci.edu (ZJ); mmcclelland@sdibr.org (MM); dmercola@uci.edu (DM)

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Farah B. Rahmatpanah

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Xin Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Waldemar Lernhardt

Affiliation Proveri, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yipeng Wang

Affiliation AltheaDx, San Diego, California, United States of America

Xiao-Qin Xia

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Anne Sawyers

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Manuel Sutton

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Michael McClelland

zjia@uci.edu (ZJ); mmcclelland@sdibr.org (MM); dmercola@uci.edu (DM)

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Dan Mercola

zjia@uci.edu (ZJ); mmcclelland@sdibr.org (MM); dmercola@uci.edu (DM)

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

MM and DM are cofounders and WL is CEO of Proveri Inc. YW is employee of AltheaDx Inc. 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: ZJ MM DM. Performed the experiments: ZJ YW XX AS MS WL. Analyzed the data: ZJ FR XC. Wrote the paper: ZJ MM DM.