About the Authors
- Paola Sebastiani
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Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Sebastiani, Monty Montano
* E-mail: sebas@bu.edu (PS); mmontano@bu.edu (MM)
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Monty Montano
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Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Sebastiani, Monty Montano
* E-mail: sebas@bu.edu (PS); mmontano@bu.edu (MM)
Affiliation Department of Medicine Sections of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Annibale Puca
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, IRCCS Multimedica, Milan, Italy
- Nadia Solovieff
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Toshio Kojima
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Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Research Group, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Meng C. Wang
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Efthymia Melista
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Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Micah Meltzer
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Affiliation Department of Medicine Sections of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Sylvia E. J. Fischer
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stacy Andersen
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Affiliation Geriatrics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stephen H. Hartley
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Amanda Sedgewick
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Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Boston University School of Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Yasumichi Arai
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Affiliation Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Aviv Bergman
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Affiliation Department of Systems & Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Nir Barzilai
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Affiliation Institute of Aging Research and Diabetes Research Center, Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Dellara F. Terry
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Affiliation Geriatrics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Alberto Riva
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Chiara Viviani Anselmi
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, IRCCS Multimedica, Milan, Italy
- Alberto Malovini
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, IRCCS Multimedica, Milan, Italy
- Aya Kitamoto
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Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Research Group, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Motoji Sawabe
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Tomio Arai
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Yasuyuki Gondo
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Affiliation Clinical Thanatology and Geriatric Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Martin H. Steinberg
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Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nobuyoshi Hirose
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Affiliation Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Gil Atzmon
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Affiliation Institute of Aging Research and Diabetes Research Center, Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Gary Ruvkun
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Clinton T. Baldwin
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Thomas T. Perls
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Geriatrics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PS MM MHS GR CB TP. Performed the experiments: PS MM TK MCW EM MM SEJF YA CVA AK GA CB. Analyzed the data: PS MM NS SHH AS AM TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS MM AAP TK SLA SHH YA AB NB DT AR MS TA YG MHS NH GA GR CB TP. Wrote the paper: PS MM NS MHS GR CB TP.