About the Authors

Xiong Yang

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society (CAS-MPG) Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Shuhua Xu

xushua@picb.ac.cn

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society (CAS-MPG) Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium

Membership of the HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium is provided in Text S1.

Competing Interests

Preeti Khurana and Kiran Kumar Mandapati are employed by The Centre for Genomic Application, India. Giulia Kennedy and Eric Wang are employed by Veracyte, Inc.), Guilia Kennedy and Eric Wang are also employed by Affymetrix, but this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SX. Performed the experiments: The HUGO PanAsia SNP Consortium. Analyzed the data: XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SX. Wrote the paper: XY SX.