About the Authors

Rebecca J. Webster

Affiliation Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Kim W. Carter

Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Nicole M. Warrington

Affiliation School of Women's and Infants' Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Angeline M. Loh

Affiliation Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Sophie Zaloumis

Affiliation Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Taco W. Kuijpers

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lyle J. Palmer

Affiliation Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

David P. Burgner

david.burgner@mcri.edu.au

Affiliations School of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB AL RW SZ LP. Performed the experiments: RW AL SZ KC. Analyzed the data: RW AL NW SZ KC DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ LP. Wrote the paper: DB RW KC SZ TK. All authors contributed to editing of the manuscript.