About the Authors

Adebowale Adeyemo

adeyemoa@mail.nih.gov (AA); rotimic@mail.nih.gov (CR)

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Norman Gerry

Affiliation The Coriell Institute for Biomedical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Guanjie Chen

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alan Herbert

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ayo Doumatey

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hanxia Huang

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jie Zhou

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kerrie Lashley

Affiliation National Human Genome Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Yuanxiu Chen

Affiliation National Human Genome Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Michael Christman

Affiliation The Coriell Institute for Biomedical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Charles Rotimi

adeyemoa@mail.nih.gov (AA); rotimic@mail.nih.gov (CR)

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA NG AH YC MC CR. Performed the experiments: NG AD HH KL YC. Analyzed the data: AA NG GC AH AD HH JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC. Wrote the paper: AA NG AH CR. Reviewed the manuscript: GC MC.