About the Authors

Daniel Lancour

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adam Naj

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Richard Mayeux

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jonathan L. Haines

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Margaret A. Pericak-Vance

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Gerard D. Schellenberg

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mark Crovella

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lindsay A. Farrer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

farrer@bu.edu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Simon Kasif

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.