About the Authors
- Benjamin Smith
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Zigui Chen
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Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Laura Reimers
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Koenraad van Doorslaer
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Mark Schiffman
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Rob DeSalle
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Affiliation Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
- Rolando Herrero
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Affiliation Proyecto Epidemiológico Guanacaste, Fundación INCIENSA, San José, Costa Rica
- Kai Yu
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Sholom Wacholder
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Tao Wang
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Robert D. Burk
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* E-mail: robert.burk@einstein.yu.edu
Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Rob DeSalle is a PLoS ONE Section Editor. The authors declare that no other competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RDB BS MS. Performed the experiments: BS ZC LR. Analyzed the data: BS LR KY TW RDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZC KVD MS RD RH KY SW TW. Wrote the paper: BS RDB.