About the Authors

Eric R. Gamazon

Affiliation Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dan L. Nicolae

Affiliations Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nancy J. Cox

ncox@bsd.uchicago.edu

Affiliation Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, 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: ERG DLN NJC. Performed the experiments: ERG. Analyzed the data: ERG DLN NJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ERG. Wrote the paper: ERG DLN NJC.