From the *Massachusetts General Hospital; †Harvard Medical School; ‡Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; §Center for Clinical Epidemiology of St. Luke’s Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan; and ¶Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA.
Accepted for publication July 19, 2013.
K.H. was supported, in part, by Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship Program (Boston, MA). Y.T. was supported, in part, by St. Luke’s Life Science Institute (Tokyo). J.M.M. and C.A.C were supported, in part, by NIH U01 AI-87881 (Bethesda, MD). The funding organizations had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review or approval of the article. The authors have no other funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.
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