About the Authors

Liping Hou

Affiliation Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher Phillips

Affiliation Forensic Genetics Department, Genomic Medicine Group, University of Santiago de Compostela and Centro Nacional de Genotipado (CeGen), Genomic Medicine Group, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Galicia, Spain

Marco Azaro

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Linda M. Brzustowicz

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Christopher W. Bartlett

Christopher.Bartlett@nationwidechildrens.org

Affiliations Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWB LH. Performed the experiments: LH CWB. Analyzed the data: CWB LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWB LH MA LMB. Wrote the paper: CWB LH CP MA LMB.