About the Authors

Manju Mamtani

mmamtani@txbiomedgenetics.org

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Hemant Kulkarni

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Thomas D. Dyer

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Laura Almasy

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Michael C. Mahaney

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ravindranath Duggirala

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Anthony G. Comuzzie

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

John Blangero

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Joanne E. Curran

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM JEC JB. Performed the experiments: HK TDD LA MCM RD AGC JB JEC. Analyzed the data: MM HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB JEC. Wrote the paper: MM.