About the Authors

Marc Via

mvia@ub.edu (MV); Esteban@sfgh.ucsf.edu (EGB); juancarlos.martinez@upr.edu (JCM-C)

Current address: Laboratory of Anthropology, Department of Animal Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Christopher R. Gignoux

Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lindsey A. Roth

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Laura Fejerman

Affiliations Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Joshua Galanter

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shweta Choudhry

Affiliations Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gladys Toro-Labrador

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Jorge Viera-Vera

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Taras K. Oleksyk

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Kenneth Beckman

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Developmental Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Elad Ziv

Affiliations Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Neil Risch

Affiliations Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, United States of America

Esteban González Burchard

Contributed equally to this work with: Esteban González Burchard, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado

mvia@ub.edu (MV); Esteban@sfgh.ucsf.edu (EGB); juancarlos.martinez@upr.edu (JCM-C)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado

Contributed equally to this work with: Esteban González Burchard, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado

mvia@ub.edu (MV); Esteban@sfgh.ucsf.edu (EGB); juancarlos.martinez@upr.edu (JCM-C)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MV CRG LF EZ NR EGB JCM-C. Performed the experiments: MV KB. Analyzed the data: MV CRG LAR JG SC NR JCM-C. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GT-L JV-V KB JCM-C. Wrote the paper: MV CRG LAR LF JG TKO EZ NR EGB JCM-C.