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Correspondence: jason.blackard@uc.edu
Author contributions: Tshegofatso Ngwaga: Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing. Ling Kong: Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing. Derrick Lin: Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing. Cassandra Schoborg: Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing.
Lynn E. Taylor: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing. Kenneth H. Mayer: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing. Robert S. Klein: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing. David D. Celentano: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing.
Jack D. Sobel: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing. Denise J. Jamieson: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing. Caroline C. King: Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing.
John E. Tavis: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing. and Jason T. Blackard: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.
The authors would like to thank the HER Study staff and participants. The HER Study group consists of Robert S. Klein, MD, Ellie Schoenbaum, MD, Julia Arnsten, MD, MPH, Robert D. Burk, MD, Chee Jen Chang, PhD, Penelope Demas, PhD, and Andrea Howard, MD, MSc, from Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine;
Jack Sobel, MD, Suzanne Ohmit, DrPH, William Brown PhD, Michael Long PhD, Wayne Lancaster PhD, and Jose Vazquez, MD, from the Wayne State University School of Medicine; Anne Rompalo, MD, David Vlahov, PhD and David Celentano, PhD, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
Charles Carpenter, MD, Kenneth Mayer, MD, Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, Timothy Flanigan, MD, Joseph Hogan, ScD, Valerie Stone, MD, Karen Tashima, MD, and Josiah Rich, MD from the Brown University School of Medicine; Ann Duerr, MD, PhD, Lytt I. Gardner, PhD, Chad Heilig, PhD, Scott D. Holmberg, MD, Caroline C. King, PhD
Denise J. Jamieson, MD, MPH, Janet S. Moore, PhD, Ruby M. Phelps, BS, Dawn K. Smith, MD, MPH and Dora Warren, PhD from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Katherine Davenny, MPH from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Disclosures: JTB is an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
This work was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (award GM105414 to JTB).
Amplicon-seq was conducted by the Genomics, Epigenomics and Sequencing Core at the Department of Environmental Health within University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is supported in part by NIEHS P30 ES006096).
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