About the Authors

Soumya Raychaudhuri

soumya@broad.mit.edu (SR); mjdaly@broad.mit.edu (MJD)

Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert M. Plenge

Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School – Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elizabeth J. Rossin

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

Aylwin C. Y. Ng

Affiliations Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Gastroenterology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

International Schizophrenia Consortium
Shaun M. Purcell

Affiliations Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pamela Sklar

Affiliations Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward M. Scolnick

Affiliations Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ramnik J. Xavier

Affiliations Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Gastroenterology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Altshuler

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

Mark J. Daly

soumya@broad.mit.edu (SR); mjdaly@broad.mit.edu (MJD)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR RMP EJR SMP PS DA MJD. Performed the experiments: SR EJR ACYN International Schizophrenia Consortium. Analyzed the data: SR ACYN EMS RJX MJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR International Schizophrenia Consortium EMS DA MJD. Wrote the paper: SR RMP EJR ACYN SMP PS EMS RJX DA MJD. Critically read and contributed to the final manuscript: SR RMP SJR ACYN SMP PS EMS RJX DA MJD.