About the Authors

Steve Horvath

Contributed equally to this work with: Steve Horvath, Jun Dong

shorvath@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jun Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Steve Horvath, Jun Dong

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: JD. Wrote the paper: SH JD.