About the Authors
- Marina E. Fomin
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Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Yanchen Zhou
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Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Ashley I. Beyer
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Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Jean Publicover
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Liver Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Jody L. Baron
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Liver Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Marcus O. Muench
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* E-mail: mmuench@bloodsystems.org
Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Liver Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The work presented in this manuscript was partially supported by Blood Systems, Inc. and Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. The authors’ research institute is a subsidiary of Blood Systems Inc. and authors from Blood Systems Research Institute are employed by Blood Systems, Inc. and receive partial salary support and/or financial support that contributed to funding of the described research. Partial salary and research funding for this work was also supported by a cooperative agreement with Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. Funding received from Blood Systems, Inc. and Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MEF MOM. Performed the experiments: MEF YZ AIB JP MOM. Analyzed the data: MEF YZ AIB JP MOM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP JLB. Wrote the paper: MEF YZ AIB JP JLB MOM.