About the Authors

Nathan Salomonis

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Brandon Nelson

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Karen Vranizan

† Deceased.

Affiliation Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Alexander R. Pico

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kristina Hanspers

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Allan Kuchinsky

Affiliation Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Linda Ta

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mark Mercola

Affiliation Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bruce R. Conklin

bconklin@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS MM BRC. Performed the experiments: NS BN LT. Analyzed the data: NS KV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS BN ARP KH AK BRC. Wrote the paper: NS. Was the lead investigator: MM.