About the Authors

Nicole Stone

Current address: Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Faith Pangilinan

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Anne M. Molloy

Affiliation School of Immunology and Biochemistry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Barry Shane

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

John M. Scott

Affiliation School of Immunology and Biochemistry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Per Magne Ueland

Affiliation Section of Pharmacology, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

James L. Mills

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peader N. Kirke

Affiliation Child Health Epidemiology Unit, Health Research Board of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Praveen Sethupathy

sethupathyp@mail.nih.gov (PS); lbrody@mail.nih.gov (LCB)

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lawrence C. Brody

sethupathyp@mail.nih.gov (PS); lbrody@mail.nih.gov (LCB)

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS PS LCB. Performed the experiments: NS FP. Analyzed the data: NS PS FP LCB AMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCB PMU. Wrote the paper: NS PS LCB. Provided cohort and related study design: AMM PNK JLM JMS BS. Edited manuscript: AMM PNK JLM JMS BS PMU FP.