About the Authors

Kjersti Aagaard

aagaardt@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kevin Riehle

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jun Ma

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nicola Segata

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Toni-Ann Mistretta

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Cristian Coarfa

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sabeen Raza

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sean Rosenbaum

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ignatia Van den Veyver

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Aleksandar Milosavljevic

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dirk Gevers

Affiliation Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Curtis Huttenhower

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph Petrosino

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

James Versalovic

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA JV. Performed the experiments: KA JP JV. Analyzed the data: KA KR JM NS TM CC S. Raza AM DG CH JV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA KR JM NS AM CH JV. Wrote the paper: KA KR JM CC DG CH JV. Critical review of the manuscript: IVdV. Clinical recruitment of subjects: S. Rosenbaum.