About the Authors

Kuan-Chieh Huang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Wei Sun

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ying Wu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Mengjie Chen

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Karen L. Mohlke

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Leslie A. Lange

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Yun Li

yunli@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCH WS YL. Analyzed the data: KCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCH YW YL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KCH WS MC KLM LAL YL.