About the Authors

Mu Jin

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Temitope Keku

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Amber McCoy

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jordyn A. Brown

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Marc Peterson

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jamie Hunter

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Shawn Smith

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African Americans, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephenie Black-Grant

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African Americans, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Melinda S. Yates

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Anne F. Peery

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Victoria L. Bae-Jump

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, UNC Microbiome Core, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephanie M. Engel

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrew F. Olshan

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Hazel B. Nichols

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hbn@email.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

VB: Merck – collaborative grants; Chimerix – drugs for pre-clinical and clinical studies, collaborative grants; Genentech - drugs for pre-clinical and clinical studies, collaborative grants This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.