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Subhashini A. Sellers, MD, 4th Floor Bioinformatics, CB#7020, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 28099, Phone: 919-966-2135, Fax: 919-966-7013. Email: sasellers@med.unc.edu
AE had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and accuracy of the analysis. AE, CR, MPR, MBD, and AAA contributed to the conception and design of the study. AE contributed to the acquisition of the data. SAS, AE contributed to the drafting of the manuscript. SAS, AE, CR, SKC, IO, LH, AM, MCM, KMK, GD, MPR, MBD, and AAA contributed to revisions of the manuscript for critically important intellectual content. All of the authors approved this version of the manuscript.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the study participants and dedication of the staff at the MWCCS sites. In addition, we would like to acknowledge the National Program of Cancer Registries of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the funds that helped support the collection and availability of the cancer registry data and thank the following state cancer registries for their help: AL, CA, FL, GA, IL, MD, MS, NY, NC, PA, and VA. The authors assume full responsibility for analyses and interpretations of these data.
Data in this manuscript were collected by the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS). The contents of this publication are solely the authors’ responsibility and do not represent the official views of the US Government, National Institutes of Health (NIH) or Department of Veterans Affairs. MWCCS (Principal Investigators): Atlanta CRS (Ighovwerha Ofotokun, Anandi Sheth, and Gina Wingood), U01-HL146241; Baltimore CRS (Todd Brown and Joseph Margolick), U01-HL146201; Bronx CRS (Kathryn Anastos and Anjali Sharma), U01-HL146204; Brooklyn CRS (Deborah Gustafson and Tracey Wilson), U01-HL146202; Data Analysis and Coordination Center (Gypsyamber D’Souza, Stephen Gange and Elizabeth Golub), U01-HL146193; Chicago-Cook County CRS (Mardge Cohen and Audrey French), U01-HL146245; Chicago-Northwestern CRS (Steven Wolinsky), U01-HL146240; Northern California CRS (Bradley Aouizerat, Jennifer Price, and Phyllis Tien), U01-HL146242; Los Angeles CRS (Roger Detels and Matthew Mimiaga), U01-HL146333; Metropolitan Washington CRS (Seble Kassaye and Daniel Merenstein), U01-HL146205; Miami CRS (Maria Alcaide, Margaret Fischl, and Deborah Jones), U01-HL146203; Pittsburgh CRS (Jeremy Martinson and Charles Rinaldo), U01-HL146208; UAB-MS CRS (Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Jodie Dionne-Odom, and Deborah Konkle-Parker), U01-HL146192; UNC CRS (Adaora Adimora), U01-HL146194. The MWCCS is funded primarily by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), with additional co-funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Institute On Aging (NIA), National Institute Of Dental & Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke (NINDS), National Institute Of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute On Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute Of Nursing Research (NINR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), and in coordination and alignment with the research priorities of the National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research (OAR). MWCCS data collection is also supported by UL1-TR000004 (UCSF CTSA), UL1-TR003098 (JHU ICTR), UL1-TR001881 (UCLA CTSI), P30-AI-050409 (Atlanta CFAR), P30-AI-073961 (Miami CFAR), P30-AI-050410 (UNC CFAR), P30-AI-027767 (UAB CFAR), and P30-MH-116867 (Miami CHARM).
Support for SAS was provided by Program in Multidisciplinary Training in Pulmonary Diseases at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [T32-HL-007106]. LH was partly supported by the National Institutes of Health [K24 HL087713]. This material is also the result of work supported with resources and the use of facilities at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. AAA has received personal funds for consulting from Merck, Gilead, and Viiv; her institution has received funds from Merck and Gilead for her research. KMK reports personal funds from Nuvaira and Allergan outside of the presented work. All other authors report no conflicts of interest.