About the Authors

Dandan Zhang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yudong Qian

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nirmala Akula

Affiliation Intramural Research Programs, The National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ney Alliey-Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jinsong Tang

Affiliation Institute of Mental Health, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

The Bipolar Genome Study

Membership of the Bipolar Genome Study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Elliot S. Gershon

cliu@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu (CL); egershon@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu(ESG)

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chunyu Liu

cliu@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu (CL); egershon@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu(ESG)

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The 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: DZ EG CL. Performed the experiments: DZ YQ. Analyzed the data: DZ NA NAR JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG CL. Wrote the paper: DZ EG CL.