About the Authors

Xiaodong Cao

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Piers MacNaughton

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jose Cedeno Laurent

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph G. Allen

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

jgallen@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare the following interest: JA was previously employed by the consulting company, Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc., which received funding from the Marble Institute of America to conduct scientific studies on exposure to radon from granite countertops. That company is no longer engaged with the MIA and has not received any funding from them since 2013. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.