About the Authors

Zigui Chen

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

zigui.chen@cuhk.edu.hk (ZC); robert.burk@einstein.yu.edu (RDB)

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Rob DeSalle

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States of America

Mark Schiffman

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Rolando Herrero

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France, Proyecto Epidemiológico Guanacaste, Fundación INCIENSA, San José, Costa Rica

Charles E. Wood

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Current address: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, CT, United States of America

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

Julio C. Ruiz

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, Texas, United States of America

Gary M. Clifford

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Paul K. S. Chan

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Robert D. Burk

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

zigui.chen@cuhk.edu.hk (ZC); robert.burk@einstein.yu.edu (RDB)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology; Epidemiology and Population Health; Obstetrics, Gynecology and Woman’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.