About the Authors

Sung Chun

Affiliation Computational and Systems Biology Program, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jevon Plunkett

Affiliation Program in Human and Statistical Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kari Teramo

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Louis J. Muglia

Affiliation Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Justin C. Fay

jfay@genetics.wustl.edu

Affiliations Computational and Systems Biology Program, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC LJM JCF. Performed the experiments: SC. Analyzed the data: SC JCF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP LJM KT. Wrote the paper: SC JCF.