About the Authors

Tejas Desai

desait@ecu.edu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Afreen Shariff

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Aabid Shariff

Affiliation Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mark Kats

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Northeast Georgia Diagnostic Clinic, Gainesville, Georgia, United States of America

Xiangming Fang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Cynthia Christiano

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Maria Ferris

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TD MK Afreen Shariff. Performed the experiments: TD. Analyzed the data: TD MK Afreen Shariff Aabid Shariff XF. Wrote the paper: TD MK Afreen Shariff XF. Significantly contributed to manuscript writing and preparation: CC MF.