About the Authors

Peter E. Chen

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Kristin M. Willner

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Amy Butani

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Shakia Dorsey

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Matroner George

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew Stewart

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Shannon M. Lentz

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher E. Cook

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Arya Akmal

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Lance B. Price

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul S. Keim

Affiliations Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, Unites States of America

Alfred Mateczun

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Trupti N. Brahmbhatt

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Kimberly A. Bishop-Lilly

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Michael E. Zwick

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Timothy D. Read

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Shanmuga Sozhamannan

Shanmuga.Sozhamannan@med.navy.mil

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PEC LBP PSK AM TNB KABL TDR SS. Performed the experiments: KMW AB SD MG SML CC LBP. Analyzed the data: PEC AS CC AA KABL MEZ TDR SS. Wrote the paper: PEC KABL MEZ TDR SS.