About the Authors

Vivek Charu

vcharu@gmail.com

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cécile Viboud

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lone Simonsen

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Katharine Sturm-Ramirez

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Masayoshi Shinjoh

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Gerardo Chowell

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Arizona, United States of America

Mark Miller

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Norio Sugaya

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Keiyu Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

NS has been an advisor to Shionogi and a technical advisor to Daiichi Sankyo. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC CV LS GC. Analyzed the data: VC CV LS GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS NS. Wrote the paper: VC CV LS KS-R MS GC MM NS.