About the Authors

Zhi-Dong Jiang

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

Affiliation University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

Robert R. Jenq

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Nadim J. Ajami

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

Affiliation Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Joseph F. Petrosino

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Ashley A. Alexander

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kelsey Research Foundation, Houston, TX, United States of America

Shi Ke

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

Tehseen Iqbal

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

Affiliation University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

Andrew W. DuPont

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America

Kenneth Muldrew

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CHI St. Luke’s Health-Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Yushu Shi

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Christine Peterson

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Kim-Anh Do

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Herbert L. DuPont

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

Herbert.L.DuPont@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Kelsey Research Foundation, Houston, TX, United States of America, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America, CHI St. Luke’s Health-Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.