About the Authors

Kathryn G. Ewens

Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn G. Ewens, Michelle R. Jones

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michelle R. Jones

Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn G. Ewens, Michelle R. Jones

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wendy Ankener

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Douglas R. Stewart

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Clinical Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Margrit Urbanek

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrea Dunaif

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Richard S. Legro

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Angela Chua

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ricardo Azziz

Current address: Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Richard S. Spielman

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mark O. Goodarzi

jfstrauss@vcu.edu (JFS) (MG); mark.goodarzi@cshs.org (MOG) (JS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jerome F. Strauss III

jfstrauss@vcu.edu (JFS) (MG); mark.goodarzi@cshs.org (MOG) (JS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD RSL JFS KGE RSS RA MOG. Performed the experiments: WA DRS AC MRJ. Analyzed the data: KGE MRJ MU. Wrote the paper: KEG AD JFS MOG MU.