About the Authors

Zhenyu Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Akihiko Nishimura

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nídia S. Trovão

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joshua L. Cherry

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

Affiliations Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew J. Holbrook

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiang Ji

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Philippe Lemey

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Marc A. Suchard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

msuchard@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, 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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.