About the Authors

Frederica Perera

Contributed equally to this work with: Frederica Perera, Wan-yee Tang

Affiliation The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Wan-yee Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Frederica Perera, Wan-yee Tang

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Julie Herbstman

Affiliation The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Deliang Tang

Affiliation The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Linda Levin

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Rachel Miller

Affiliations The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Shuk-mei Ho

shuk-mei.ho@uc.edu

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cancer Center, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FP WyT SmH. Performed the experiments: WyT JH DT LL. Analyzed the data: FP WyT JH LL RM SmH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FP WyT JH DT LL SmH. Wrote the paper: FP WyT JH DT LL RM SmH.