About the Authors

Bing Yu

Affiliation Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yan Zheng

Affiliation Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Danny Alexander

Affiliation Metabolon, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alanna C. Morrison

Affiliation Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Josef Coresh

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Eric Boerwinkle

Eric.Boerwinkle@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB. Analyzed the data: BY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACM DA YZ. Wrote the paper: BY ACM EB. Contributed to the kidney function and incident kidney disease ascertainment: JC.