About the Authors

Braxton D. Mitchell

bmitchel@medicine.umaryland.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Woei-Jyh Lee

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Magdalena I. Tolea

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kelsey Shields

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zahra Ashktorab

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Laurence S. Magder

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kathleen A. Ryan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Toni I. Pollin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick F. McArdle

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alan R. Shuldiner

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alejandro A. Schäffer

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDM MIT AAS LSM ARS. Performed the experiments: BDM W-JL MIT KS ZA KAR TIP AAS. Analyzed the data: BDM W-JL MIT KS ZA LSM KAR TIP PFM AAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W-JL ZA AAS. Wrote the paper: BDM W-JL MIT KS PFM AAS.