About the Authors

Scott F. Saccone

ssaccone@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Laura J. Bierut

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Elissa J. Chesler

Affiliation Systems Genetics Group, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Peter W. Kalivas

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Caryn Lerman

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nancy L. Saccone

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

George R. Uhl

Affiliation Molecular Neurobiology Branch, National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Intramural Research Program (IRP) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chuan-Yun Li

Affiliations Molecular Neurobiology Branch, National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Intramural Research Program (IRP) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics, National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Vivek M. Philip

Affiliation Systems Genetics Group, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Howard J. Edenberg

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Stephen T. Sherry

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Feolo

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert K. Moyzis

Affiliations Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Joni L. Rutter

Affiliation Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services(DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Drs. S.F. Saccone and L.J. Bierut are listed as inventors on a patent (US 20070258898) held by Perlegen Sciences, Inc., covering the use of certain SNPs in determining the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of addiction. Dr. N.L. Saccone is the spouse of Dr. S.F. Saccone, who is listed as an inventor on the aforementioned patent. Dr. Bierut has served as a consultant to Pfizer.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SFS LB EJC PK CL NLS GU CYL VMP HJE RM JLR. Performed the experiments: SFS EJC VMP. Analyzed the data: SFS EJC VMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SFS EJC GU CYL VMP SS MF RM. Wrote the paper: SFS LB EJC PK CL NLS GU HJE JLR.