About the Authors

Gurmannat Kalra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Beatrice Milon

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Alex M. Casella

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Physician Scientist Training Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Brian R. Herb

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Elizabeth Humphries

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Program in Molecular Epidemiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Yang Song

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Kevin P. Rose

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Ronna Hertzano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rhertzano@som.umaryland.edu (RH); sament@som.umaryland.edu (SAA)

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Seth A. Ament

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rhertzano@som.umaryland.edu (RH); sament@som.umaryland.edu (SAA)

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.