About the Authors

Joyce Y. Tung

joyce@23andme.com

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Chuong B. Do

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

David A. Hinds

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Amy K. Kiefer

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

J. Michael Macpherson

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Arnab B. Chowdry

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Uta Francke

Affiliations 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Brian T. Naughton

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Joanna L. Mountain

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Anne Wojcicki

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Nicholas Eriksson

Affiliation 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

JYT, CBD, DAH, AKK, JMM, ABC, UF, BTN, JLM, AW, AND NE are employed by 23andMe and own stock options in the company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. However, the authors' obligations to protect their customers' privacy (as outlined in our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement) prevent them from making their customers' individual-level data publicly available. Aggregate-level data (for example, in the form of 2×3 tables that were used for their statistics) can be made available upon request.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYT CBD DAH AKK JMM ABC UF BTN JLM AW NE. Performed the experiments: JYT CBD NE. Analyzed the data: JYT CBD NE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYT CBD AKK JMM ABC BTN NE. Wrote the paper: JYT CBD NE.