About the Authors

Alexandra C. Nica

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Stephen B. Montgomery

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Antigone S. Dimas

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Barbara E. Stranger

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Claude Beazley

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

Inês Barroso

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

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

emmanouil.dermitzakis@unige.ch

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACN ETD. Analyzed the data: ACN SBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ASD BES CB IB. Wrote the paper: ACN ETD. Supervised the study: ETD. Contributed ideas and comments on the manuscript: IB.