About the Authors

Kaku A. So-Armah

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kaku@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Debbie M. Cheng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew S. Freiberg

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Natalia Gnatienko

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory Patts

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

Affiliation Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yicheng Ma

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura White

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elena Blokhina

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Pavlov State Medical University, V. M. Bekhterev National Research Medical Center For Psychiatry And Neurology, St. Petersburg, Russia

Dmitry Lioznov

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, First Pavlov State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Margaret F. Doyle

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Russell P. Tracy

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Natalie Chichetto

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Carly Bridden

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kendall Bryant

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Evgeny Krupitsky

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Pavlov State Medical University, V. M. Bekhterev National Research Medical Center For Psychiatry And Neurology, St. Petersburg, Russia

Jeffrey H. Samet

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

An employee of the funder (K. Bryant) is a co-author on this manuscript and helped guide analysis, interpretation and presentation of data and participated in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Debbie Cheng serves on Data Safety Monitoring Boards for Janssen Research & Development. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors report no declarations of interest.