About the Authors

Christopher J. Winrow

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J. Winrow, Deanna L. Williams

Affiliation Department of Depression and Circadian Rhythms, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Deanna L. Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J. Winrow, Deanna L. Williams

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Andrew Kasarskis

Affiliation Genetics Department, Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Joshua Millstein

Affiliation Genetics Department, Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Aaron D. Laposky

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

He S. Yang

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Karrie Mrazek

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Lili Zhou

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Joseph R. Owens

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Daniel Radzicki

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Fabian Preuss

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Eric E. Schadt

Affiliation Genetics Department, Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kazuhiro Shimomura

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Martha H. Vitaterna

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Chunsheng Zhang

Affiliation Informatics Custom Analysis Department, Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kenneth S. Koblan

Affiliation Department of Depression and Circadian Rhythms, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John J. Renger

Affiliation Department of Depression and Circadian Rhythms, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fred W. Turek

fturek@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJW AK JM AL MHV JJR FWT. Performed the experiments: DLW KM JRO DPR. Analyzed the data: CJW DLW AK JM AL HSY KM LZ JRO DPR FP KS MHV JJR FWT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM LZ EES KS MHV CZ. Wrote the paper: CJW DLW AK JM AL MHV FWT.