About the Authors

Emily G. Jacobs

egjacobs@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu (EGJ); nrasgon@stanford.edu (NLR)

Current address: Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program, Center for Health and Community, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Candyce Kroenke

Affiliation Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, California, United States of America

Jue Lin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elissa S. Epel

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Heather A. Kenna

Affiliation Stanford Center for Neuroscience in Women's Health, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Natalie L. Rasgon

egjacobs@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu (EGJ); nrasgon@stanford.edu (NLR)

Affiliation Stanford Center for Neuroscience in Women's Health, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Drs. Blackburn, Epel, and Lin are cofounders in a company measuring telomere diagnostics. No other author has a conflict of interest to report. 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: EJ NR EE. Performed the experiments: EE NR JL. Analyzed the data: EJ CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL EB NR EE. Wrote the paper: EJ NR JL EE. Administrative and technical support: HK.