About the Authors

Justo Lorenzo Bermejo

Contributed equally to this work with: Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Felix Boekstegers

lorenzo@imbi.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Statistical Genetics Group, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Felix Boekstegers

Contributed equally to this work with: Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Felix Boekstegers

Affiliation Statistical Genetics Group, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Rosa González Silos

Affiliation Statistical Genetics Group, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Katherine Marcelain

Affiliation Program of Human Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Medical Faculty, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Pablo Baez Benavides

Affiliation Program of Human Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Medical Faculty, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Carol Barahona Ponce

Affiliations Statistical Genetics Group, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Program of Human Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Medical Faculty, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Bettina Müller

Affiliation Instituto Nacional del Cáncer de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Catterina Ferreccio

Affiliations School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Jill Koshiol

Affiliation Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Christine Fischer

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Barbara Peil

Affiliation Statistical Genetics Group, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Janet Sinsheimer

Affiliation Biomathematics and Human Genetics Departments, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Macarena Fuentes Guajardo

Affiliations Instituto de Alta Investigación, Tarapacá University, Arica, Chile, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, and UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Olga Barajas

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Rolando Gonzalez-Jose

Affiliation Centro Nacional Patagónico, Puerto Madryn, Argentina

Gabriel Bedoya

Affiliation Laboratorio de Genética Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Maria Cátira Bortolini

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Puerto Alegre, Brazil

Samuel Canizales-Quinteros

Affiliation Unidad de Genómica de Poblaciones Aplicada a la Salud, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México

Carla Gallo

Affiliation Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

Andres Ruiz Linares

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, and UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Francisco Rothhammer

Affiliation Instituto de Alta Investigación, Tarapacá University, Arica, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JLB. Data curation: JLB KM PBB CBP BM CFe JK OB MFG RGJ GB MCB SCQ CG ARL FR. Formal analysis: JLB FB RGS BP. Funding acquisition: JLB KM BM ARL FR. Investigation: JLB FB KM BM CFi JK CFe JS FR. Methodology: JLB FB JS FR. Supervision: JLB. Validation: JLB FB KM FR. Visualization: FB RGS BP. Writing – original draft: JLB FB BM CFe JK FR. Writing – review & editing: JLB FB BM CFe JK CFi JS.