About the Authors

Sun-Hee Ahn

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Hitesh Deshmukh

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nicole Johnson

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Lindsay G. Cowell

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas H. Rude

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

William K. Scott

Affiliation Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Charlotte L. Nelson

Affiliation Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Aimee K. Zaas

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Douglas A. Marchuk

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sehoon Keum

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Supaporn Lamlertthon

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Batu K. Sharma-Kuinkel

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Gregory D. Sempowski

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Vance G. Fowler Jr

fowle003@mc.duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Fowler has served as a consultant for Astellas, Cubist, Inhibitex, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Leo Pharmaceuticals, NovaDigm, The Medicines Company, Baxter Pharmaceuticals & Biosynexus; has received grant or research support from Astellas, Cubist, Merck, Theravance, Inhibitex, Cerexa, Pfizer, Novartis, Advanced Liquid Logic and National Institute of Health; has received honoraria from Arpida, Astellas, Cubist, Inhibitex, Merck, Pfizer, Targanta, Theravance, Ortho-McNeil, Novartis & Vertex Pharmaceuticals; has served on an advisory committee for Cubist; is employed by Duke University; and has served as a speaker's bureau for Cubist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHA HD NJ LGC WKS AKZ DAM SK SL BKSK VGF. Performed the experiments: SHA HD THR. Analyzed the data: SHA HD NJ LGC CLN GDS VGF. Wrote the paper: SHA HD LGC VGF.