About the Authors

Yongwook Choi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongwook Choi, Agnes P. Chan

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

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Agnes P. Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongwook Choi, Agnes P. Chan

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

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ewen Kirkness

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Longevity, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Amalio Telenti

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nschork@jcvi.org (NJS); atelenti@jcvi.org (AT)

Current address: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Nicholas J. Schork

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nschork@jcvi.org (NJS); atelenti@jcvi.org (AT)

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: EK is an employee of Human Longevity, Inc. and holds stock in the company. NJS has stock options in Human Longevity, Inc.