About the Authors

Daniel Bottomly

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Bottomly, Nicole A. R. Walter

bottomly@ohsu.edu; dbottomly@gmail.com

Affiliation Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Nicole A. R. Walter

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Bottomly, Nicole A. R. Walter

Affiliations Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Jessica Ezzell Hunter

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Priscila Darakjian

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Sunita Kawane

Affiliation Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Kari J. Buck

Affiliations Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Robert P. Searles

Affiliation Massively Parallel Sequencing Shared Resource, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Michael Mooney

Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Shannon K. McWeeney

Affiliations Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Division of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Division of Biostatistics, Public Health & Preventative Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Robert Hitzemann

Affiliations Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH KJB SKM JEH NARW DB. Performed the experiments: NARW JEH RPS. Analyzed the data: DB NARW PD SK MM JEH. Wrote the paper: DB NARW JEH. Contributed to discussions and manuscript edits: KJB SKM MM RH. Conducted the overlay of the SNPs onto reference sequence and probes for SNP masks: PD SK. Provided assistance with the comparison of the microarray platforms: MM.