About the Authors

Srirangan Sampath

aravinda@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetics Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shambu Bhat

Affiliation Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetics Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Simone Gupta

Affiliation Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetics Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ashley O’Connor

Affiliation Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetics Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew B. West

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neurobiology, Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dan E. Arking

Affiliation Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetics Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Aravinda Chakravarti

Current address: Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetics Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ABW DEA AC. Performed the experiments: SS SB SG AO. Analyzed the data: SS SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABW DEA AC. Wrote the manuscript: SS.