About the Authors

Tesfaye M. Baye

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Melinda Butsch Kovacic

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jocelyn M. Biagini Myers

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Lisa J. Martin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mark Lindsey

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Tia L. Patterson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hua He

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mark B. Ericksen

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jayanta Gupta

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Anna M. Tsoras

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Andrew Lindsley

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Marc E. Rothenberg

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Marsha Wills-Karp

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

N. Tony Eissa

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Larry Borish

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

Gurjit.Khurana.Hershey@cchmc.org

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 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: GKKH. Performed the experiments: MBK JMBM TP JG AMT. Analyzed the data: TMB MBK JMBM LJM AL ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWK MER NTE LB GKKH. Wrote the paper: TBM LM GKKH. Performed data analyses and helped prepare table and figures: HH. Executed subject recruitment efforts: MBE.