About the Authors

Guanjie Chen

chengu@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ao Yuan

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Daniel Shriner

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Fasil Tekola-Ayele

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jie Zhou

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Amy R. Bentley

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yanxun Zhou

Affiliation Suizhou Central Hospital, Suizhou, Hubei, China

Chuntao Wang

Affiliation Suizhou Central Hospital, Suizhou, Hubei, China

Melanie J. Newport

Affiliation Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Adebowale Adeyemo

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Charles N. Rotimi

Affiliation Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC AY DS CNR. Analyzed the data: GC AY DS FT JZ AB YZ CW AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJN. Wrote the paper: GC AY DS FT AB AA CNR.