About the Authors

James C. Barton

Contributed equally to this work with: James C. Barton, Howard H. Wiener, Ronald T. Acton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bartonjames336@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA and Southern Iron Disorders Center, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Howard H. Wiener

Contributed equally to this work with: James C. Barton, Howard H. Wiener, Ronald T. Acton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Ronald T. Acton

Contributed equally to this work with: James C. Barton, Howard H. Wiener, Ronald T. Acton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USA and Southern Iron Disorders Center, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Paul C. Adams

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ONT, Canada

John H. Eckfeldt

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Victor R. Gordeuk

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Emily L. Harris

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Christine E. McLaren

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Helen Harrison

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation The Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program, Fanshawe College, London, ONT, Canada

Gordon D. McLaren

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA and Department of Veterans Affairs Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA, United States of America

David M. Reboussin

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.