About the Authors

Rahul C. Deo

Affiliations Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Luke Hunter

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory D. Lewis

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Guillaume Pare

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ramachandran S. Vasan

Affiliations Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Sections of Cardiology and Preventive Medicine, and the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel Chasman

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas J. Wang

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert E. Gerszten

Affiliations Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Frederick P. Roth

fritz_roth@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCD LH FPR. Performed the experiments: RCD LH. Analyzed the data: RCD LH GP DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GDL RSV TJW REG. Wrote the paper: RCD RSV DC TJW REG FPR.