About the Authors

Xiangning Chen

xchen@vcu.edu

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavior Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Cuie Sun

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavior Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Qi Chen

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavior Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

F. Anthony O'Neill

Affiliation The Department of Psychiatry, The Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Dermot Walsh

Affiliation The Health Research Board, Dublin, Ireland

Ayman H. Fanous

Affiliation Washington VA Medical Center, Washington, D. C., and Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Kodavali V. Chowdari

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Adrian Scott

Affiliation Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Sibylle G. Schwab

Affiliation Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Dieter B. Wildenauer

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Ronglin Che

Affiliation Bio-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Wei Tang

Affiliation Bio-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Yongyong Shi

Affiliation Bio-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Lin He

Affiliation Bio-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xiong-jian Luo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China

Bing Su

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China

Todd L. Edwards

Affiliation Miami institute of human genetics, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Zhongming Zhao

Affiliation Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kenneth S. Kendler

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavior Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC. Performed the experiments: CS QC AS SGS RC XjL. Analyzed the data: XC TLE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO DW AHF KVC VLN AS SGS DBW RC WT YS LH XjL BS ZZ KSK. Wrote the paper: XC.