About the Authors

Yongtao Guan

ytguan@uchicago.edu (YG); mstephens@uchicago.edu (MS)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Matthew Stephens

ytguan@uchicago.edu (YG); mstephens@uchicago.edu (MS)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG MS. Performed the experiments: YG. Analyzed the data: YG MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG MS. Wrote the paper: YG MS.