About the Authors
- Paola Sebastiani
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* E-mail: sebas@bu.edu
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nadia Solovieff
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Andrew T. DeWan
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Affiliation Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Kyle M. Walsh
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Affiliation Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Annibale Puca
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Affiliation IRCCS Multimedica, Milano, Italy; Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Segrate, Italy
- Stephen W. Hartley
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Efthymia Melista
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Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stacy Andersen
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Affiliation Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Daniel A. Dworkis
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jemma B. Wilk
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Richard H. Myers
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Martin H. Steinberg
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Monty Montano
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Clinton T. Baldwin
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Josephine Hoh
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Affiliation Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Thomas T. Perls
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Affiliation Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
In the study the authors included 254 subjects enrolled at ELIXIR. 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.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PS CB MS MM JH TP. Performed the experiments: CB EM AD KW JH. Analyzed the data: PS NS SH DD AD KW JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP JW RM SA. Wrote the paper: PS NS MS MM JH TP.