About the Authors

Gary K. Chen

gary.k.chen@usc.edu

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine ,Biostatistics Division, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eric C. Chi

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John Michael O. Ranola

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kenneth Lange

Affiliations Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GKC ECC KL. Performed the experiments: GKC. Analyzed the data: GKC. Wrote the paper: GKC ECC KL. Prepared the POPRES data: JMOR.