About the Authors

Jairam R. Lingappa

Contributed equally to this work with: Jairam R. Lingappa, Logan Dumitrescu

lingappa@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Departments of Global Health, Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Logan Dumitrescu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jairam R. Lingappa, Logan Dumitrescu

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Shanta M. Zimmer

Affiliation Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ruth Lynfield

Affiliation Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Janet M. McNicholl

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Nancy E. Messonnier

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Cynthia G. Whitney

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dana C. Crawford

Affiliations Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRL LD RL JM NEM DCC. Performed the experiments: JRL LD SMZ RL JM NEM CGW DCC. Analyzed the data: JRL LD DCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD DCC. Wrote the paper: JRL LD SMZ RL JM NEM CGW DCC.