About the Authors

Mady Hornig

mady.hornig@columbia.edu (MH); wil2001@columbia.edu (WIL)

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas Briese

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Timothy Buie

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margaret L. Bauman

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics and Learning and Developmental Disabilities Evaluation and Rehabilitation Services (LADDERS), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory Lauwers

Affiliation Department of Pathology of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ulrike Siemetzki

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kimberly Hummel

Affiliation Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Herpesvirus Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Paul A. Rota

Affiliation Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Herpesvirus Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

William J. Bellini

Affiliation Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Herpesvirus Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John J. O'Leary

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Orla Sheils

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Errol Alden

Affiliation American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States of America

Larry Pickering

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

W. Ian Lipkin

mady.hornig@columbia.edu (MH); wil2001@columbia.edu (WIL)

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors JOL and OS were compensated for expert witness statements concerning MMR vaccine and autism on behalf of claimants in litigation in the United Kingdom.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH TB LP WIL. Performed the experiments: TB TB MB GL US KH OS. Analyzed the data: MH TB MB GL WIL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB TB GL PAR WJB JO. Wrote the paper: MH WIL. Obtained funding: WIL MH EA. Study supervision: WIL MB TB MH TB. Critical revisions of manuscript: WIL MH TB LP OS JO WJB PAR KH MB. Statistical analysis: MH. Study oversight: LP.