About the Authors

Yin-Ju Lien

Affiliations College of Public Health, Research Center for Genes and Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Environment and Human Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Genetic Epidemiology Core Laboratory, Center of Genomic Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Chang Hsiao

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Core Laboratory, Center of Genomic Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Min Liu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Stephen V. Faraone

Affiliation Departments of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience and Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Ming T. Tsuang

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and the Center for Behavioral Genomics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Harvard Departments of Epidemiology and Psychiatry, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hai-Gwo Hwu

Affiliations College of Public Health, Research Center for Genes and Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Environment and Human Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei J. Chen

wjchen@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations College of Public Health, Research Center for Genes and Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Environment and Human Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Genetic Epidemiology Core Laboratory, Center of Genomic Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SVF MTT HGH WJC. Performed the experiments: YJL CML HGH WJC. Analyzed the data: YJL PCH. Wrote the paper: YJL WJC.