About the Authors

Francine Grodstein

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fgrodstein@partners.org

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marieke van Oijen

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Michael C. Irizarry

Affiliation Glaxo-Smith Kline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

H. Diana Rosas

Affiliation Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bradley T. Hyman

Affiliation Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John H. Growdon

Affiliation Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Immaculata De Vivo

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG MI HR JG ID. Performed the experiments: BH FG MI HR JG ID. Analyzed the data: FG Mv ID. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR ID. Wrote the paper: BH FG Mv MI HR JG ID.