About the Authors

Snigdha Vallabhaneni

snigdhav@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xin Li

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Eric Vittinghoff

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Deborah Donnell

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher D. Pilcher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Susan P. Buchbinder

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV XL EV DD CP SB. Analyzed the data: SV XL EV. Wrote the paper: SV EV DD CP SB.