Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Biostatistics and Computational Biology (Mr Khan, Ms Thakar); Department of Environmental Medicine (Mr Woeller); Departments of Medicine, Environmental Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology (Mr Phipps); Department of Public Health Sciences (Mr Hopke); Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam (Mr Hopke); Departments of Medicine and Environmental Medicine (Mr Utell), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York; Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (Mr Thatcher, Ms Sime); Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland (Ms Krahl, Mr Mallon).
Address correspondence to: Juilee Thakar, PhD, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY ([email protected]).
This work was supported in part by The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. grant number HT9404-13-1-0030, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Grant # P30-ES01247 and NIH training grant # T32HL066988.
Conflict of Interest: None declared.
Clinical significance: The proposed robust computational approach can be utilized to identify biomarkers from post-exposure serum samples and can be further developed to be utilized in the clinic to estimate exposure associated health hazards.
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