About the Authors

Amy R. Bentley

amy.bentley@mail.nih.gov (ARB); rotimic@mail.nih.gov (CNR)

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

Guanjie Chen

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

Daniel Shriner

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

Ayo P. Doumatey

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

James C. Mullikin

Affiliation National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert W. Blakesley

Affiliation National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nancy F. Hansen

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gerard G. Bouffard

Affiliation National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Praveen F. Cherukuri

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Baishali Maskeri

Affiliation National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alice C. Young

Affiliation National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Adebowale Adeyemo

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

Charles N. Rotimi

amy.bentley@mail.nih.gov (ARB); rotimic@mail.nih.gov (CNR)

Affiliation Center for Research in 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: ARB AA CNR. Performed the experiments: APD HH JCM RWB NFH GGB PFC BM ACY. Analyzed the data: ARB GC DS JZ AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC JCM. Wrote the paper: ARB AA CNR.