About the Authors

Ethan M. Lange

elange@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Anna M. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yunfei Wang

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Kimberly A. Zuhlke

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yurong Lu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jessica V. Ribado

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Gregory R. Keele

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jin Li

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Qing Duan

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ge Li

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhengrong Gao

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Yun Li

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jianfeng Xu

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

William B. Isaacs

Affiliation Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Siqun Zheng

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Kathleen A. Cooney

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EML KAC. Performed the experiments: AMJ KAZ GL ZG SZ. Analyzed the data: EML YW Y. Lu JVR GK JL QD Y. Li. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX SZ WBI. Wrote the paper: EML KAC.