About the Authors

Benjamin F Voight

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin F Voight, Sridhar Kudaravalli

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sridhar Kudaravalli

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin F Voight, Sridhar Kudaravalli

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaoquan Wen

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jonathan K Pritchard

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pritch@uchicago.edu

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BFV, JKP, SK, and XW conceived and designed the statistical methods. BFV, SK, and JKP conceived and designed the project, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper. XW constructed the Java web tool. BFV performed the simulations.