About the Authors

Ping An

pingan@nih.gov (PA); winklerc@mail.nih.gov (CAW)

Affiliation Basic Research Laboratory, SAIC–Frederick, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Rongling Li

Affiliation Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ji Ming Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Teizo Yoshimura

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Munehisa Takahashi

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Ram Samudralal

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephen J. O'Brien

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

John Phair

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

James J. Goedert

Affiliation Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory D. Kirk

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer L. Troyer

Affiliation BSP/CCR Genetics Core, SAIC–Frederick, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Efe Sezgin

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Susan P. Buchbinder

Affiliation San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sharyne Donfield

Affiliation Rho, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

George W. Nelson

Affiliation BSP/CCR Genetics Core, SAIC–Frederick, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Cheryl A. Winkler

pingan@nih.gov (PA); winklerc@mail.nih.gov (CAW)

Affiliation Basic Research Laboratory, SAIC–Frederick, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PA CAW ES. Performed the experiments: PA JMW TY MT RS ES. Analyzed the data: PA RL GWN ES JLT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJO JP JJG GDK SPB SD. Wrote the paper: PA CAW GWN ES JLT.