About the Authors

Nisa M. Maruthur

maruthur@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Man Li

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

Marc K. Halushka

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Brad C. Astor

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Population Health Sciences, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

James S. Pankow

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Eric Boerwinkle

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Josef Coresh

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elizabeth Selvin

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Wen Hong Linda Kao

† Deceased.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMM ML MKH ES WHLK. Performed the experiments: NMM ML WHLK. Analyzed the data: NMM ML WHLK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BCA JSP EB JC ES WHLK. Wrote the paper: NMM ML MKH BCA JSP EB JC ES WHLK. Designed and finalized analysis plan: NMM ML WHLK. Interpreted results: NMM ML MKH ES WHLK. Drafted manuscript: NMM. Edited manuscript: ML MKH BCA JSP EB JC ES WHLK.