About the Authors

D. Elizabeth O’Hanlon

Contributed equally to this work with: D. Elizabeth O’Hanlon, Sarah E. Brown

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

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

Sarah E. Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: D. Elizabeth O’Hanlon, Sarah E. Brown

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Xin He

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Christina A. Stennett

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Sarah J. Robbins

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Elizabeth D. Johnston

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty Physicians Inc., University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Amelia M. Wnorowski

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Katrina Mark

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Jacques Ravel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Richard A. Cone

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Rebecca M. Brotman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rbrotman@som.umaryland.edu

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: J.R. is co-founder of LUCA Biologics, a biotechnology company focusing on translating microbiome research into live biotherapeutics drugs for women’s health. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.