About the Authors

David Meyre

meyred@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Philippe Froguel

Affiliations Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 8199, Lille Pasteur Institute, Lille, Nord, France, Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Fritz F. Horber

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Landesspital, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

John G. Kral

Affiliation Department of Surgery, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM PF FH JK. Wrote the paper: DM PF FH JK.