About the Authors

Elaheh Rahbar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

erahbar@wakehealth.edu (ER); schilton@wakehealth.edu (FHC)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Hannah C. Ainsworth

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Timothy D. Howard

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Gregory A. Hawkins

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Ingo Ruczinski

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Rasika Mathias

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Michael C. Seeds

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Susan Sergeant

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

James E. Hixson

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

David M. Herrington

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Carl D. Langefeld

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Floyd H. Chilton

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

erahbar@wakehealth.edu (ER); schilton@wakehealth.edu (FHC)

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.