About the Authors

Sanjay R. Patel

spatel@partners.org

Affiliation Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Goodloe

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gourab De

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew Kowgier

Affiliation Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jia Weng

Affiliation Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sarah G. Buxbaum

Affiliations Jackson Heart Study, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Brian Cade

Affiliation Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tibor Fulop

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Sina A. Gharib

Affiliation University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center and Center for Lung Biology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Daniel J. Gottlieb

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Hillman

Affiliation West Australian Sleep Disorders Research Institute, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia

Emma K. Larkin

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Diane S. Lauderdale

Affiliation Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Li Li

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sutapa Mukherjee

Affiliations West Australian Sleep Disorders Research Institute, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lyle Palmer

Affiliation Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Phyllis Zee

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaofeng Zhu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Susan Redline

Affiliation Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRP SGB TF SAG DJG EKL DSL LL SM LP PZ XZ SR. Performed the experiments: SRP DJG DH LL SM SR. Analyzed the data: SRP RG GD MK JW BC XZ. Wrote the paper: SRP SR.