About the Authors

Homa Attar

homa.attar@gmail.com (HA); Stylianos.Antonarakis@unige.ch (SA)

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Karen Bedard

Current address: Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva Medical School and University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Eugenia Migliavacca

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Lausanne, Dorigny, Switzerland

Maryline Gagnebin

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Yann Dupré

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Patrick Descombes

Current address: Functional Genomics Core, Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliation Genomics Platform, NCCR Frontiers in Genetics, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Christelle Borel

Current address: Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Samuel Deutsch

Current address: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Holger Prokisch

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Thomas Meitinger

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Divya Mehta

Current address: Molecular Genetics of Depression, Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, München, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Erich Wichmann

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Jean Maurice Delabar

Affiliation Functional and Adaptive Biology, Université Paris Diderot-Paris7 and CNRS, Paris, France

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Karl-Heinz Krause

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva Medical School and University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Stylianos E. Antonarakis

homa.attar@gmail.com (HA); Stylianos.Antonarakis@unige.ch (SA)

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Advised on study design and analysis: SEA KHK ETD. Conceived and designed the experiments: HA SEA KB KHK. Performed the experiments: HA KB. Analyzed the data: HA EM KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SEA KHK EW HP TM JMD MG YD PD CB SD DM. Wrote the paper: HA SEA.