About the Authors

Megan Y. Dennis

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Silvia Paracchini

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Thomas S. Scerri

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson

Affiliation Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Julian C. Knight

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Richard Wade-Martins

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Penny Coggill

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephan Beck

Affiliation UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Eric D. Green

egreen@nhgri.nih.gov (EDG); anthony.monaco@well.ox.ac.uk (APM)

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Anthony P. Monaco

egreen@nhgri.nih.gov (EDG); anthony.monaco@well.ox.ac.uk (APM)

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MYD SP TSS LPO JCK RWM EDG APM. Performed the experiments: MYD SP TSS LPO. Analyzed the data: MYD SP TSS LPO JCK RWM EDG APM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MYD LPO RWM EDG APM. Wrote the paper: MYD SP LPO EDG APM. Made significant contributions to editing the paper: TSS JCK RWM. Sequenced the BACs: PC SB.