About the Authors

Patrick O. McGowan

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill Program for the Study of Behaviour, Genes and Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sackler Program for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Aya Sasaki

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill Program for the Study of Behaviour, Genes and Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sackler Program for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tony C. T. Huang

Affiliations Sackler Program for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alexander Unterberger

Affiliations Sackler Program for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Matthew Suderman

Affiliations Sackler Program for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Carl Ernst

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Michael J. Meaney

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill Program for the Study of Behaviour, Genes and Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sackler Program for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gustavo Turecki

gustvao.turecki@mcgill.ca (GT); moshe.szyf@mcgill.ca (MS)

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Moshe Szyf

gustvao.turecki@mcgill.ca (GT); moshe.szyf@mcgill.ca (MS)

Affiliations Sackler Program for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM MS GT. Performed the experiments: PM AS AU TH. Analyzed the data: PM AS MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS CE GT. Wrote the paper: MM MS PM AS GT.