About the Authors

Audrey J. Gaskins

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sunni L. Mumford

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jorge E. Chavarro

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cuilin Zhang

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Anna Z. Pollack

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jean Wactawski-Wende

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Neil J. Perkins

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Enrique F. Schisterman

schistee@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-author Dr. Cuilin Zhang is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have no additional competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW ES. Analyzed the data: AG JC ES SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG ES SM NP. Wrote the paper: AG SM JC. Critical Revision of the Manuscript for important intellectual content: ES AP CZ JW JC.