About the Authors

Lluís Armengol

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF) and CIBERESP, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Quantitative Genomic Medicine Laboratories (qGenomics), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Sergi Villatoro

Affiliation Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF) and CIBERESP, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Juan R. González

Affiliation Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Lorena Pantano

Affiliation Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF) and CIBERESP, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Manel García-Aragonés

Affiliation Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF) and CIBERESP, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Raquel Rabionet

Affiliation Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF) and CIBERESP, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Mario Cáceres

Affiliation Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF) and CIBERESP, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Xavier Estivill

xavier.estivill@crg.es

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF) and CIBERESP, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Genetics Unit, Department of Health and Experimental Life Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, National Genotyping Center (CeGen) Barcelona Genotyping Node, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LA MC XE. Performed the experiments: LA SV MGA MC. Analyzed the data: LA SV JRG MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LA LP MC. Wrote the paper: LA JRG RR MC XE.