About the Authors

Melissa G. Naylor

mnaylor@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xihong Lin

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Scott T. Weiss

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Benjamin A. Raby

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christoph Lange

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGN XL BAR CL. Performed the experiments: MGN. Analyzed the data: MGN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STW. Wrote the paper: MGN BAR.