About the Authors

Desiree C. Petersen

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ondrej Libiger

Affiliation The Scripps Translational Science Institute, Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Tindall

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Rae-Anne Hardie

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia

Linda I. Hannick

Current address: Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Richard H. Glashoff

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa

Mitali Mukerji

Affiliation Insitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), Delhi, India

Indian Genome Variation Consortium
Pedro Fernandez

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa

Wilfrid Haacke

Affiliation Department of Language and Literature Studies, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

Nicholas J. Schork

Affiliation The Scripps Translational Science Institute, Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Vanessa M. Hayes

vhayes@jcvi.org

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty and School of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VMH DCP OL NJS. Performed the experiments: DCP EAT R-AH. Analyzed the data: DCP OL EAT R-AH LIH NJS VMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VMH NJS. Wrote the paper: VMH DCP. Study design, subject recruitment, and sample preparation: DCP RHG PF VMH. Data interpretation: DCP OL MM NJS VMH. Provided critical linguistic interpretation: WH. Contributed to final draft: DCP OL EAT RAH LIH RHG MM PF WH NJS VMH.