About the Authors

Vijaya Kancherla

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Joshua V. Garn

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Neil A. Zakai

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont College, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Rebecca S. Williamson

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Winn T. Cashion

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Oluwaseun Odewole

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Suzanne E. Judd

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Godfrey P. Oakley Jr.

gpoakley@mindspring.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VK JVG NAZ GPO. Formal analysis: VK JVG. Investigation: VK JVG. Methodology: VK JVG NAZ RSW WTC OO SEJ GPO. Software: VK JVG. Validation: VK JVG. Writing - review & editing: VK JVG NAZ RSW WTC OO SEJ GPO.