About the Authors

Jonathan P. Bradfield

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hui-Qi Qu

Current address: Division of Epidemiology School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Kai Wang

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Haitao Zhang

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Patrick M. Sleiman

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cecilia E. Kim

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Frank D. Mentch

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Haijun Qiu

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph T. Glessner

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kelly A. Thomas

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Edward C. Frackelton

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rosetta M. Chiavacci

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Marcin Imielinski

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dimitri S. Monos

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Abramson Research Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rahul Pandey

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Marina Bakay

Affiliation The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Struan F. A. Grant

Affiliations The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Human Genetics, Abramson Research Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Constantin Polychronakos

hakonarson@chop.edu (HH); constantin.polychronakos@mcgill.ca (CP)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Hakon Hakonarson

hakonarson@chop.edu (HH); constantin.polychronakos@mcgill.ca (CP)

Affiliations The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Human Genetics, Abramson Research Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPB H-QQ SFAG CP HH. Performed the experiments: JPB CEK KAT ECF RP MB. Analyzed the data: JPB H-QQ KW HZ PMS FDM HQ JTG MI SFAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMC DSM SFAG CP HH. Wrote the paper: JPB H-QQ SFAG CP HH.