Prenatal cadmium exposure does not induce greater incidence or earlier onset of autoimmunity in the offspring

• Jamie L. McCall,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• Harry C. Blair,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Pittsburgh VA Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, the and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Kathryn E. Blethen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4602-9514

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• Casey Hall,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• Meenal Elliott,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• John B. Barnett

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jbarnett@hsc.wvu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States of America, West Virginia University Cancer Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6547-2381

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