About the Authors

Christine Clark

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Clark, Priit Palta

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Priit Palta

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Clark, Priit Palta

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Christopher J. Joyce

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Carol Scott

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Elin Grundberg

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Panos Deloukas

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Aarno Palotie

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Program in Medical and Population Genetics and Genetic Analysis Platform, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki and University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Alison J. Coffey

ajc@sanger.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC AP AJC. Performed the experiments: CC EG. Analyzed the data: CC PP CJJ CS AJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC PP CJJ CS EG AJC. Wrote the paper: CC PP EG CJJ AJC. Critical review of the manuscript: CC PP CJJ CS PD AP AJC.