About the Authors

Mohammed Mamdani

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed Mamdani, Vernell Williamson, Gowon O. McMichael

mamdanim@vcu.edu (MM); vivladimirov@vcu.edu (VIV)

Affiliation Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Vernell Williamson

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed Mamdani, Vernell Williamson, Gowon O. McMichael

Affiliation Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Gowon O. McMichael

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed Mamdani, Vernell Williamson, Gowon O. McMichael

Affiliation Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Tana Blevins

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Fazil Aliev

Affiliations Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Amy Adkins

Affiliation Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Laura Hack

Affiliation Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Tim Bigdeli

Affiliation Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Andrew D. van der Vaart

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Bradley Todd Web

Affiliation Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Silviu-Alin Bacanu

Affiliation Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Gursharan Kalsi

Affiliation Department of Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom

COGA Consortium

Membership of COGA Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Kenneth S. Kendler

Affiliations Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Human & Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Michael F. Miles

Affiliations Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Danielle Dick

Affiliations Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Human & Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Brien P. Riley

Affiliations Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Human & Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Catherine Dumur

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Vladimir I. Vladimirov

mamdanim@vcu.edu (MM); vivladimirov@vcu.edu (VIV)

Affiliations Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VIV. Performed the experiments: MM GOM T. Blevins. Analyzed the data: VIV MM VW FA SAB. Wrote the paper: MM VIV VW CD BPR KSK MM DD ADV GK. GWAS p-values: COGA. Generated the genotype data and performed the QC analysis: BTW AA LH T. Bigdeli BPR.