About the Authors
- Qiaojun Wen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qiaojun Wen, Linda Y. Liu, Ting Yang, Cantas Alev
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Linda Y. Liu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qiaojun Wen, Linda Y. Liu, Ting Yang, Cantas Alev
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Ting Yang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qiaojun Wen, Linda Y. Liu, Ting Yang, Cantas Alev
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Cantas Alev
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qiaojun Wen, Linda Y. Liu, Ting Yang, Cantas Alev
Affiliation Lab for Early Embryogenesis, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Chuo-Ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
- Shuaibin Wu
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- David K. Stevenson
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Guojun Sheng
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Affiliation Lab for Early Embryogenesis, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Chuo-Ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
- Atul J. Butte
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* E-mail: bxling@stanford.edu (XBL); abutte@stanford.edu (AJB)
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Xuefeng B. Ling
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* E-mail: bxling@stanford.edu (XBL); abutte@stanford.edu (AJB)
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
AJB and XBL are co-founders and equity holders of Carmenta Bioscience. Carmenta Bioscience is aiming to develop serum protein based diagnostics, NOT serum peptide based diagnostics. 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: XBL DKS AJB. Performed the experiments: TY SW CA. Analyzed the data: GS XBL QW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LYL. Wrote the paper: XBL QW.