About the Authors
- Ruth R. Miller
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Affiliation School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Miguel Uyaguari-Diaz
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Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Mark N. McCabe
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Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Vincent Montoya
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Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Jennifer L. Gardy
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Affiliations School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Shoshana Parker
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Affiliation Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Theodore Steiner
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- William Hsiao
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Affiliations British Columbia Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Matthew J. Nesbitt
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Affiliation Coastal Genomics Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
- Patrick Tang
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar
- David M. Patrick
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* E-mail: david.patrick@ubc.ca
Affiliations School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- for the CCD Study Group
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¶Membership of the CCD Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
Matthew Nesbit is employed by Coastal Genomics. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: DMP PT JLG RRM. Data curation: RRM SP. Formal analysis: RRM. Funding acquisition: DMP PT JLG. Investigation: RRM MUD MNM VM JLG TS WH MJN PT DMP. Methodology: DMP PT JLG RRM. Project administration: DMP SP. Resources: TS DMP MUD VM MJN. Software: RRM. Supervision: DMP PT JLG. Validation: RRM DMP PT JLG. Visualization: RRM. Writing – original draft: RRM. Writing – review & editing: RRM MUD MNM VM JLG SP TS WH MJN PT DMP.