About the Authors
- Anatole Ghazalpour
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Contributed equally to this work with: Anatole Ghazalpour, Sudheer Doss, Aldons J Lusis, Steve Horvath
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Sudheer Doss
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Contributed equally to this work with: Anatole Ghazalpour, Sudheer Doss, Aldons J Lusis, Steve Horvath
Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Bin Zhang
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Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Susanna Wang
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Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Christopher Plaisier
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Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Ruth Castellanos
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Alec Brozell
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Eric E Schadt
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Affiliation Rosetta Inpharmatics, Inc., Kirkland, Washington, United States of America
- Thomas A Drake
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Aldons J Lusis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Anatole Ghazalpour, Sudheer Doss, Aldons J Lusis, Steve Horvath
Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Steve Horvath
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Contributed equally to this work with: Anatole Ghazalpour, Sudheer Doss, Aldons J Lusis, Steve Horvath
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shorvath@mednet.ucla.edu
Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The Molecular Biology Institute is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc.
Author Contributions
AG, SD and SH conceived and designed the experiments. AG, SD, RC, and AB performed the experiments. AG, SD, CP, and SH analyzed the data. AG, SD, BZ, and SH contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. BZ wrote major parts of the R software that will be made publicly available. SW was involved in F2 mouse cross data generation. CP helped to carry out the functional enrichment analysis. EES and TAD participated in data generation and conceptual discussion. AJL and SH co-directed the work. AG, SD, AJL, and SH wrote the paper.