About the Authors

Thomas Pfeiffer

pfeiffer@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliations Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Modeling, ICRHPS, Tufts Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lars Bertram

Affiliation Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group, Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

John P. A. Ioannidis

Affiliations Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Ioannina, Greece, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Modeling, ICRHPS, Tufts Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP LB JPAI. Analyzed the data: TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP LB. Wrote the paper: TP.