About the Authors

Athma A. Pai

athma@uchicago.edu (AA Pai); pritch@uchicago.edu (JK Pritchard); gilad@uchicago.edu (Y Gilad)

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Carolyn E. Cain

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Orna Mizrahi-Man

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sherryl De Leon

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Noah Lewellen

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, BioMiningLabs, Lyon, France

Jacob F. Degner

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Committee on Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Daniel J. Gaffney

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joseph K. Pickrell

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Matthew Stephens

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jonathan K. Pritchard

athma@uchicago.edu (AA Pai); pritch@uchicago.edu (JK Pritchard); gilad@uchicago.edu (Y Gilad)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, BioMiningLabs, Lyon, France

Yoav Gilad

athma@uchicago.edu (AA Pai); pritch@uchicago.edu (JK Pritchard); gilad@uchicago.edu (Y Gilad)

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, 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: AA Pai, JK Pritchard, Y Gilad. Led data collection and performed experiments: AA Pai. Assisted in performing the experiments: S De Leon, N Lewellen. Collected the PolII ChIP-seq data: CE Cain. Analyzed the data: AA Pai. Assisted in analysis and contributed analysis tools: OMizrahi-Man, J-B Veyrieras, JF Degner, DJ Gaffney, JK Pickrell. Helped develop the statistical methods: M Stephens. Wrote the manuscript with input from all authors: AA Pai, JK Pritchard, Y Gilad. Jointly supervised the project: JK Pritchard, Y Gilad.