About the Authors

Christine E. McLaren

cmclaren@uci.edu

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

Stela McLachlan

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

Chad P. Garner

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

Chris D. Vulpe

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

Victor R. Gordeuk

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Sickle Cell Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

John H. Eckfeldt

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

Paul C. Adams

Affiliation London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

Ronald T. Acton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Joseph A. Murray

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Catherine Leiendecker-Foster

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

Beverly M. Snively

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Lisa F. Barcellos

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

James D. Cook

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Gordon D. McLaren

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CEM SM CPG GDM. Performed the experiments: JHE JAM CLF LFB. Analyzed the data: SM CPG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHE LFB JAM. Wrote the paper: CEM SM CPG CDV VRG JHE PCA RTA JAM CLF BMS LFB JDC GDM.