About the Authors

Badri Padhukasahasram

Contributed equally to this work with: Badri Padhukasahasram, Eran Halperin

bpadhuka@ucdavis.edu

Current address: Section on Ecology and Evolution and Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation Navigenics, Foster City, California, United States of America

Eran Halperin

Contributed equally to this work with: Badri Padhukasahasram, Eran Halperin

Current address: Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel-Aviv, University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Affiliation Navigenics, Foster City, California, United States of America

Jennifer Wessel

Current address: School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Affiliation Navigenics, Foster City, California, United States of America

Daryl J. Thomas

Current address: Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Affiliation Navigenics, Foster City, California, United States of America

Elana Silver

Affiliation Navigenics, Foster City, California, United States of America

Heather Trumbower

Affiliation Navigenics, Foster City, California, United States of America

Michele Cargill

Current address: Locus Development, San Francisco, California, United States America

Affiliation Navigenics, Foster City, California, United States of America

Dietrich A. Stephan

Affiliations Navigenics, Foster City, California, United States of America, Institute for Individualized Health, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, The Cancer Genome Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

All the authors were employed at Navigenics Inc when this study was carried out. No other company mentioned in the author affiliations was involved in the study. This is a primary research article and the data used in this study (WTCCC data) was not generated by the company and is available to all qualified researchers. 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: BKP EH JW MC DS. Performed the experiments: BKP EH JW DJT. Analyzed the data: BKP EH JW DJT ES HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW DJT ES HT. Wrote the paper: BKP EH DJT ES HT MC DS.