About the Authors

Micha Hersch

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Bastian Peter

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hyun Min Kang

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Department of Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Fanny Schüpfer

Affiliation Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hugues Abriel

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Thierry Pedrazzini

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Eleazar Eskin

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Department of Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jacques S. Beckmann

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sven Bergmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Bergmann, Fabienne Maurer

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Fabienne Maurer

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Bergmann, Fabienne Maurer

fabienne.maurer@chuv.ch

Affiliation Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH BP HA TP JSB SB FM. Performed the experiments: MH BP FS FM. Analyzed the data: MH BP HMK EE SB FM. Wrote the paper: MH SB JSB FM.