About the Authors

Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp

hendrik.weitkamp@Vanderbilt.Edu (JHW); pllin@emory.edu (PWD)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael J. Rosen

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Zhiguo Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Tatsuki Koyama

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Duke Geem

Affiliation Center for Inflammation, Immunity, and Infection, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Timothy L. Denning

Affiliation Center for Inflammation, Immunity, and Infection, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Michael T. Rock

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniel J. Moore

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Melissa D. Halpern

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Steele Children's Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Pranathi Matta

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Patricia W. Denning

hendrik.weitkamp@Vanderbilt.Edu (JHW); pllin@emory.edu (PWD)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp and Patricia Denning are authors and also PLOS ONE Editorial Board members. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHW TLD PWD. Performed the experiments: JHW PM DG. Analyzed the data: JHW MJR ZZ TK MTR PD DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJR TLD MTR MDH DJM. Wrote the paper: JHW MJR PWD.