About the Authors

Richard Ahn

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Yuan Chun Ding

Affiliation Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Joseph Murray

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Immunology, The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Alessio Fasano

Affiliation Center for Celiac Research, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Peter H. R. Green

Affiliation Celiac Disease Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Susan L. Neuhausen

Affiliation Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Chad Garner

cgarner@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG SN. Performed the experiments: YCD SN. Analyzed the data: RA CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM AF PHRG SN. Wrote the paper: CG SN RA.