About the Authors

Nikhella Winter

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikhella Winter, Akilah T. M. Stewart

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

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Akilah T. M. Stewart

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikhella Winter, Akilah T. M. Stewart

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

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Jessica Igiede

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

Affiliations Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend, Indiana, United States of America

Rachel M. Wiltshire

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

Affiliations Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend, Indiana, United States of America

Limb K. Hapairai

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

Affiliations Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend, Indiana, United States of America

Lester D. James

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Azad Mohammed

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

David W. Severson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend, Indiana, United States of America

Molly Duman-Scheel

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

mscheel@nd.edu

Affiliations Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Scheel and Severson are inventors on a related patent submission, US patent application 62/361,704 / European patent application EP 17828458.4. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have no competing interests.