About the Authors

Wei Zhang

Affiliation UBS Equities, Stamford, Connecticut, United States of America

Jun Zhu

Affiliations Rosetta Inpharmatics, LLC, Merck & Co., Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Eric E. Schadt

Affiliations Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Jun S. Liu

jliu@stat.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

JZ and EES worked for Merck and own Merck's stocks.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ JZ EES JSL. Analyzed the data: WZ JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ JZ. Wrote the paper: WZ JZ EES JSL.