About the Authors

Juan L. Rodriguez-Flores

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Jennifer Fuller

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Neil R. Hackett

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Jacqueline Salit

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Joel A. Malek

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College – Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Eman Al-Dous

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College – Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Lotfi Chouchane

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College – Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Mahmoud Zirie

Affiliations Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College – Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Amin Jayoussi

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Mai A. Mahmoud

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College – Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Ronald G. Crystal

geneticmedicine@med.cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Jason G. Mezey

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRF NRH RGC JGM. Performed the experiments: JRF JAM. Analyzed the data: JRF NRH JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF RGC JGM EAD LC MZ AJ MM. Wrote the paper: JRF RGC JGM.