About the Authors

Perry G. Ridge

Affiliations Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America, ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Shubhabrata Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Paul K. Crane

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

John S. K. Kauwe

kauwe@byu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium

Membership of the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PGR JSKK. Performed the experiments: PGR. Analyzed the data: PGR SM PC JSKK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM ADGC. Wrote the manuscript: PGR JSKK.