About the Authors

Irene Papatheodorou

irenep@ebi.ac.uk

Affiliations European Molecular Biology Laboratory–European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Institute of Healthy Ageing, and Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Matthias Ziehm

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory–European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Daniela Wieser

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory–European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nazif Alic

Affiliation Institute of Healthy Ageing, and Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Linda Partridge

Affiliations Institute of Healthy Ageing, and Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany

Janet M. Thornton

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory–European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Results interpretation: IP MZ DW NA LP JMT. Critical review of article: MZ DW NA LP JMT. Conceived and designed the experiments: IP JMT. Performed the experiments: IP. Analyzed the data: IP NA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MZ. Wrote the paper: IP.