About the Authors

Stephen Nayfach

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Patrick H. Bradley

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stacia K. Wyman

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Timothy J. Laurent

Current Address: Invitae, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alex Williams

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jonathan A. Eisen

Affiliation Department of Evolution and Ecology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis Genome Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Katherine S. Pollard

kpollard@gladstone.ucsf.edu (KSP); thomas.sharpton@oregonstate.edu (TJS)

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thomas J. Sharpton

kpollard@gladstone.ucsf.edu (KSP); thomas.sharpton@oregonstate.edu (TJS)

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJS KSP JAE SN PHB SKW. Performed the experiments: SN TJS PHB SKW. Analyzed the data: SN PHB SKW TJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJS SN PHB TJL AW. Wrote the paper: TJS SN PHB SKW KSP JAE.