About the Authors

Gregory S. Barsh

gbarsh@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

Gregory M. Cooper

Affiliation HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

Gregory P. Copenhaver

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Greg Gibson

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mark I. McCarthy

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Hua Tang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Scott M. Williams

Current address: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

GSB and GPC are Editors-in-Chief of PLOS Genetics. GG, HT, and SMW are Section Editors for the Natural Variation Section for PLOS Genetics. GMC is an Associate Editor and MIM is a former Associate Editor for PLOS Genetics.