About the Authors

J. Kenneth Baillie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

j.k.baillie@ed.ac.uk (JKB); alistair.forrest@perkins.uwa.edu.au (ARRF); david.hume@uq.edu.au (DAH)

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Andrew Bretherick

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Christopher S. Haley

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sara Clohisey

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alan Gray

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lucile P. A. Neyton

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jeffrey Barrett

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Statistical Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Eli A. Stahl

Roles Validation

Affiliation Center for Statistical Genetics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States of America

Albert Tenesa

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Robin Andersson

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology & Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

J. Ben Brown

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

Geoffrey J. Faulkner

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Marina Lizio

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Ulf Schaefer

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Informatics, Public Health England, Colindale, United Kingdom

Carsten Daub

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Masayoshi Itoh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan, RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Wako, Japan

Naoto Kondo

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Timo Lassmann

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

Affiliation RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Jun Kawai

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

IIBDGC Consortium

Affiliation Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, and the Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Damian Mole

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Vladimir B. Bajic

Roles Investigation

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Peter Heutink

Roles Investigation

Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tübingen, Germany

Michael Rehli

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. Hematology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Hideya Kawaji

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliations RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan, RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Wako, Japan

Albin Sandelin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology & Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Harukazu Suzuki

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Jack Satsangi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Christine A. Wells

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane Australia

Nir Hacohen

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States of America

Thomas C. Freeman

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Yoshihide Hayashizaki

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Piero Carninci

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama, Japan, Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Alistair R. R. Forrest

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

j.k.baillie@ed.ac.uk (JKB); alistair.forrest@perkins.uwa.edu.au (ARRF); david.hume@uq.edu.au (DAH)

Affiliation Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, and the Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

David A. Hume

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

j.k.baillie@ed.ac.uk (JKB); alistair.forrest@perkins.uwa.edu.au (ARRF); david.hume@uq.edu.au (DAH)

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.