About the Authors

Jennifer K. Lowe

Affiliations The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Julian B. Maller

Current address: Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Itsik Pe'er

Current address: Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Benjamin M. Neale

Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom

Jacqueline Salit

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Eimear E. Kenny

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jessica L. Shea

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ralph Burkhardt

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

J. Gustav Smith

Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Weizhen Ji

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Martha Noel

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jia Nee Foo

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Maude L. Blundell

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Vita Skilling

Current address: Department of Health, Education, and Social Affairs, Federated States of Micronesia, Palikir, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia

Affiliation Kosrae Department of Health Services, Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia

Laura Garcia

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Marcia L. Sullivan

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Heather E. Lee

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Anna Labek

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Hope Ferdowsian

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Steven B. Auerbach

Affiliation Department of Health and Human Services, Heath Resources and Services Administration, New York, New York, United States of America

Richard P. Lifton

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher Newton-Cheh

Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jan L. Breslow

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Markus Stoffel

Current address: Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Affiliation The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Mark J. Daly

Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David M. Altshuler

altshuler@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu (DMA); friedj@rockefeller.edu (JMF)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Friedman

altshuler@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu (DMA); friedj@rockefeller.edu (JMF)

Affiliations The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKL JBM IP BMN VS JLB MS MJD DMA JMF. Performed the experiments: JKL JBM IP JS JLS MLB VS LG MLS HEL. Analyzed the data: JKL JBM BMN JS EEK JGS CNC MJD DMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKL JBM IP BMN JS EEK JLS RB JGS WJ MN JNF MLB LG AL HF SBA RPL CNC JLB MS MJD JMF. Wrote the paper: JKL JGS CNC DMA.