Welcome to the web supplement to Sarwal et al:
" DNA microarray profiling identified molecular heterogeneity and suggests a role of B-cells in acute renal allograft rejection"

Here you can find enhanced views of data presented in the paper, as well as additional enhanced content not found in the paper.

Please make a selection from the following:

Explore figure details and additional data using GeneXplorer, a web application for online browsing of the clustered gene expression data.

Figures from the paper and web exclusive supplimental materials

Web supplement containing additional figures

Materials and methods containing an expanded and more detailed description of the materials and methods used in the paper.

The people who were involved in the project.

NOTE: The authors listed above off the above link are the actual authors of the paper, as originally accepted for publication by the NEJM. Four of these authors, whose names were listed on the manuscript and the NEJM galley proofs, do not appear on the author list in the article in NEJM.

Here's why: After accepting the paper, just a few weeks before the schedule publication the editors of the NEJM insisted on deleting the following sentence at the galley proof stage: "This article is published under the terms of the public library of science open access license, a copy of which can be found at www.publiclibraryofscience.org"

This sentence, and the authors' insistence that the paper be published according to the principles advocated by the Public Library Of Science, had been highlighted in our correspondence with the editors, and had never been brought up by the NEJM as an issue during the many months the paper spent in the review and editorial process.

Some of the authors were depending on the publication for a pending grant application. All the authors felt that allowing NEJM to force a long delay in publication would be a disservice to the patients who were the intended beneficiaries of the work. The authors therefore agreed to allow NEJM to publish the paper in spite of what we regarded as a cynical abuse of their power to hold the paper hostage.

Four of the authors - Chen, Alizadeh, Diehn and Brown - demanded that their names be removed from the publication in the NEJM, as an act of protest against the NEJM's handling of the paper. The author listing in this record correctly represents their contributions.