About the Authors

Bamidele O. Tayo

btayo@lumc.edu (BOT); erwin.bottinger@mssm.edu (EPB)

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Marie Teil

Affiliation Charles R. Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Liping Tong

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Huaizhen Qin

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Gregory Khitrov

Affiliation Charles R. Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Weijia Zhang

Affiliation Charles R. Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Quinbin Song

Affiliation Charles R. Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Omri Gottesman

Affiliation Charles R. Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Xiaofeng Zhu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Alexandre C. Pereira

Affiliation University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Richard S. Cooper

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Erwin P. Bottinger

btayo@lumc.edu (BOT); erwin.bottinger@mssm.edu (EPB)

Affiliation Charles R. Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EPB RSC. Performed the experiments: GK WZ QS MT. Analyzed the data: BOT LT HQ WZ XZ OG RSC EPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BOT XZ. Wrote the paper: BOT RSC EPB. Provided Brazilian population genetic data set: ACP.