About the Authors

Wan Isa Hatin

Affiliation Human Genome Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

Ab Rajab Nur-Shafawati

Affiliation Human Genome Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

Mohd-Khairi Zahri

Affiliation Human Genome Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

Shuhua Xu

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society (CAS-MPG) Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Li Jin

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society (CAS-MPG) Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Soon-Guan Tan

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Mohammed Rizman-Idid

Affiliations Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Centre of Research for Computational Sciences and Informatics in Biology, Bioindustry, Environment, Agriculture and Healthcare (CRYSTAL), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Bin Alwi Zilfalil

zilfalil@kb.usm.my

Affiliations Human Genome Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium

The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium authors with their affiliations are listed in Text S1.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NSAR ZMK PASNPI. Performed the experiments: NSAR ZMK PASNPI. Analyzed the data: HWI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SX LJ PASNPI. Wrote the paper: HWI. Population sampling: NSAR HWI ZBA PASNPI. Interpretation of results: HWI SX RIM. Critical review of manuscript: TSG ZBA RIM SX LJ HWI NSAR.